National Heritage Areas
The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area (TCWNHA)
is one of thirty-seven Congressionally designated heritage areas across the country that represent stories, people, and places of national significance. Tennessee is a member of the Alliance of National Heritage Areas that takes as its motto "Celebrating and Conserving Real Places in America." The goals of the Alliance are to:
1) Enhance the quality of life for citizens and their communities
2) Attract national and international visitors to those communities
3) Provide distinguished examples of sustainable destination development for our nation.
The National Heritage Areas are:
1. America's Agricultural Heritage Partnership (Silos and Smokestacks)
2. Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area (Georgia)
3. Atchafalaya National Heritage Area (Louisiana)
4. Augusta Canal National Heritage Area (Georgia)
5. Blue Ridge National Heritage Area (North Carolina)
6. Cache La Poudre River Corridor (Colorado)
7. Cane River National Heritage Area (Louisiana)
8. Champlain Valley National Heritage Partnership (New York
and Vermont)
9. Crossroads of the American Revolution
National Heritage Area (New Jersey)
10. Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor (Pennsylvania)
11. Erie Canalway National Corridor (New York)
12. Essex National Heritage Area (Massachusetts)
13. Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area (Kansas and
Missouri)
14. Great Basin National Heritage Route (Nevada and Utah)
15. Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor (Florida,
Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina)
16. Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area (New York)
17. Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (Illinois)
18. John H. Chafee Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor
(Massachusetts and Rhode Island)
19. Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area (Pennsylvania)
20. Mississippi Gulf Coast National Heritage Area
(Mississippi)
21. Mormon Pioneer National Heritage Area (Utah)
22. MotorCities National Heritage Area (Michigan)
23. National Aviation Heritage Area (Ohio)
24. National Coal Heritage Area (West Virginia)
25. Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area (New Mexico)
26. Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor (Ohio)
27. Oil Region National Heritage Area (Pennsylvania)
28. Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor
(Massachusetts)
29. Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area (Pennsylvania)
30. Schuykill River Valley National Heritage Area (Pennsylvania)
31. Shenandoah Valley Battlefields National Historic District Commission
(Virginia)
32. South Carolina National Heritage Corridor
33. Southwestern Pennsylvania Heritage Preservation Commission (Path of
Progress National Heritage Tour Route - Pennsylvania)
34. Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area
35. Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area
(Connecticut and Massachusetts)
36. Wheeling National Heritage Area (West Virginia)
37. Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area (Arizona)
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