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