Even when they tried to make these places relevant to history, they do a well, not so good of job. For something to properly preserved and have the background information on it is if someone died there. Unless you are in a museum which technically that’s their main job. What happens when that piece is in the open for the public to see? On most artifacts like that, you’re lucky to even get a plaque that has the name of what this item is. The government decides what’s important when it comes to projects like this. You would think that trains would be better commemorated considering they brought together this country in a way that had never been done before. It was the base to advancement for the future transportation in the United States. The government wouldn’t have been running this smoothly as one united nation. Most likely if it wasn’t for the railroad this country would be in separate nations considering that most of the western territory was so far away from the government on the other side of the country. It could a been a Colonist breaking off of Britain kind of situation at that point of time. …show more content…
The thing is that’s exactly what I wanted to think about this. That means to me that you still read this and was thinking about the problem at hand. You would of probably of never known any of this if I wouldn’t have told you about. The real thing about this was that History is like art, you display, you tell about it, and remember it. Not only though is it like those three things, but the biggest one in my opinion would be that everything has a meaning to it. If the piece has no meaning to it then it means nothing at all. What sets it apart from the rest is the fact of the story behind each piece. The story is what makes the piece, so my question is what’s it going to take for these pieces of history to have their very own story