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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

BLUFFTON, S.C. (AP) - Students at a Bluffton middle school want to make sure the world knows about Daufuskie Island. The Beaufort Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/12GL261 ) that McCracken Middle School teacher Pam Davis noticed there wasn't much information about Daufuskie on Google Earth. So ninth-graders from her Google applications class are creating 3-D models of sites on the island they visited last month to later upload to Google Earth. The island is designated as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places because of its Gullah and Civil War history. The island may be best known as the location where novelist Pat Conroy once taught. He related his experiences in his memoir "The Water is Wide" which was later made into the film "Conrack." Information from: The Beaufort Gazette, http://www.beaufortgazette.com