National Parks are created to preserve and protect natural and cultural resources for future generations. That often means that Parks have cultural archives of photographs, items of daily life, documents, oral histories and cemetery data. Some of these items maybe in a Park visitor center or museum but most are kept in climate controlled rooms, unseen by all but the curator.

This website brings resources out of the archives of three National Parks, Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area, Obed Wild and Scenic River and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Cultural Comparison Archives - Search through photos of people and daily life, documents, and oral history transcriptions from each park's archives.

Cemetery Database - Cemeteries in the park's go back to the 1800's. This database allows you to search and compare information on the headstones to learn more about the people who originally lived in some of our National Parks.

Teacher's Resources - Contains guided activities to use with your students to make the resources available on this website come alive.