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Ambler, Cathy – Great Plains Quarterly, 1995
Small historic sites are endeavors by small communities to preserve elements of their past. The sites they choose reveal the cultural values they esteem today. The structures most frequently represented at seven museum-developed sites are schools and churches because they were agents of social order, centers of community life and ritual, and…
Descriptors: Buildings, Built Environment, Community Characteristics, Community Schools