Showcase Your Site Using “Clio”
A No-Cost Approach for Creating a Virtual Tour
Clio is a completely free educational website and mobile application that guides the public to thousands of historical sites, museums, monuments, landmarks, and other sites of cultural, historical or environmental significance. Clio’s innovative tools allow museums, historical societies, professors and their students, libraries, local historians, and other organizations to create individual entries, walking tours or heritage trails.
The St. Croix River watershed is host to hundreds of significant historical, cultural and natural resources. Bringing visitors to our region allows them to experience all that makes it unique and allow us to share the ways in which our sense of the past connects with our sense of place. Your organization can build an entry for your site without cost or any special equipment in less than a day!
Whether your site is large or small, in town or in the country, visitors to the watershed will be able to find you because Clio’s data base is easily searchable by area/region/state or by category. Visit www.theClio.com to see examples of diverse sites, walking and driving tours, museum tours and natural sites. Your site can join them for the world to see…and ALL AT NO COST!
Featured Sites in the Watershed
Located high on the bluffs on Zion’s Hill, overlooking downtown Stillwater, the Washington County Historic Courthouse is the oldest standing courthouse in Minnesota. Completed in 1870, the building is preserved today as a snapshot of the era.
Housed in six buildings on the historic gammelgården or old farm where the community of Scandia was first established, Gammelgården offers historical, educational, and cultural activities.
Add Your Site to Clio
North Woods and Waters of the St. Croix Heritage Area encourages organizations within the watershed to explore the benefits of using Clio to promote their unique location. In this webinar, Dr. David Trowbridge, creator of the Clio website and mobile app, explains how you can build a virtual tour of your sites at no cost using these innovative tools. With a growing selection of more than 30,000 entries and more than 700 walking/driving tours, Clio already guides thousands of people to nearby historical, cultural and natural sites each day.
How to Create a Clio Entry: https://theclio.com/howToCreateEntry
Easy to follow, step-by-step process to create your organization’s site entry.
How to Create a Walking/DrivingTour: https://theclio.com/howToCreateTour
Individuals and institutions can create walking tours and heritage (driving) trails that connect individual Clio entries and offer mapped directions.
Each entry includes a descriptive summary of the site and its significance, along with images, mapped directions, links to relevant books, articles, videos, interviews, primary sources, and credible websites. All entries are published under a Creative Commons license that acknowledges the contributor.
Already on Clio?
Already on Clio?Has your organization created a Clio entry or walking/driving tour within the St. Croix River Watershed? NWW would like to feature it on this webpage in the future. Please click here to Register Your Site with NWW, provide a brief description of your entry, and include the Clio link.
Volunteer as a Clio Mentor
Would you be willing to help “newcomers” to the Clio platform? Assist organizations in the design of an entry for their historical, cultural or natural site. Provide guidance to organizations collaborating to create walking or driving tours. Help sites enhance their entries by adding video or other technology components. To serve as a Volunteer Mentor OR to request help from a Clio Mentor, contact info@northwoodsandwaters.org.