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Fort Larned national Historic
Site
Pratt County 4-H
GeoTech Community Service Learning Project
Pratt County 4-Hers visited Fort Larned
National Historic Site on March 26 and April 30,
2011.
We went to Fort Larned to mark GPS
coordinates and take pictures for a
worksheet.
Fort Larned already has a
self-guided walking trail. We
recorded the coordinates of
the points along the trail.
If the posts marking the trail
were ever lost, someone would
be able to restore the markers
by using GPS coordinates.
The park rangers
asked us to mark
the corners of the
buildings.
We marked the
flag pole too.
We designed a
worksheet for young
visitors to the park.
It contains photos
and questions to be
answered.
Is the saddler a civilian or an enlisted man?
What direction does this building face?
Why?
The worksheet also has
places to write down the
GPS coordinates from
your own device.
Write the coordinates of the exact spot the
photograher was standing when he took
this photo.
To answer some of the
questions a visitor must
use their GPS receiver to
find an exact point.
Go to these coordinates:
N 38 10.949
W 99 13.174
If you walk straight east from
here, where will you end up?
We learned that Roy
Rogers visited the
fort when it was a
ranch. Like many
other visitors, he
carved his name into
a wall.
We learned a lot about using a GPS receiver
and about history and the history of Fort
Larned.
Music by Kevin MacLeod
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Produced by Pratt County 4-H