Homeschool Zoo Annex

Center Of Population Project

While visiting the family camp this week, we discovered something pretty neat there. It was a cement pad in the shape of our state, even having a blue path across it representing the Arkansas River.













In the center of that cement pad was something that at first we thought might be just a manhole cover or something similar. However, we discovered it wasn't that at all.












It turned out this was the marker for the Center Of Population Project. I found information about this neat project just by searching with Google.

I'm sharing it with you, readers, so that you might also be able to find where this project is located in your state. It's kind of neat, but I wish they would have used an upright marker nearby so that everyone could read more about it and know just why the monument is there in the first place.

Let me know what you find out about this project in your state!

Labels: Geography, Social Studies

posted by Ann crum @ 5:45 PM