De Soto National Memorial

Brown lined seahorse from the De Soto National Memorial museum collection

NPS Photo

Culture and science mix at De Soto National Memorial. Start exploring here. This page introduces online sources for the natural and cultural histories of De Soto National Memorial.

Historical and scientific information can be found in many places online. Some of the links below are to other National Park Service (NPS) web sites. More link to other libraries and archives.

National Park Service information sites:

• Harpers Ferry Center, part of the National Park Service, houses the NPS history collection, commissioned art collection, AV and film collection, and other material, parts of which are available online in the NPGallery through the Harpers Ferry web page. We recommend searching using the words de soto and choosing list view when the results appear.
• At least sixty articles, reports, and other data about De Soto National Memorial are available through the NPS Data Store.
• NPS reports, studies, maps, and management plans may be found on the NPS Electronic Technical Information Center web site. Here you will find Small Park, Large Issues: De Soto National Memorial and the Commemoration of a Difficult History.

Information about De Soto National Memorial held by other institutions:

• The collections of the Library of Congress document the legislative history of the memorial. For legislation relating to De Soto National Memorial, search the web site of the U.S. Congress. Advice: "De Soto" can be used as one word or two; we recommend searches both ways.

For more information about the museum and archive collections from De Soto National Memorial held at the South Florida Collections Management Center--the NPS museum facility in Everglades National Park--visit the Using the Collections page or contact the staff through the Contact Us page.