Bluffton students put Daufuskie sites on Google Maps
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By TOM BARTON — tbarton@beaufortgazette.com Earth to Google: How come you can't find information about historic sites on Daufuskie Island? H.E. McCracken Middle School teacher Pam Davis asked the question after her husband took her on a tour of the island for her birthday. Davis was shocked by the dearth of online information about the tiny Sea Island that has been designated as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places because of its Gullah and Civil War history. "There was nothing on Google Earth," Davis said. "So I thought, 'What a perfect opportunity for a unique and engaging project for students to work on.' " Ninth-graders from Davis' Google applications class at H.E. McCracken in Bluffton are now about a month into a semester-long project, creating 3-D models of historic sites on Daufuskie Island to upload to Google Earth. The class traveled to Daufuskie on Feb. 25 to collect measurements, pictures and