Coronado National Memorial

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NPS Sites Authorized this Decade: 21
NPS Sites Deauthorized/Transferred: 1
NPS Sites Authorized to Date: 179

1940 through 1949
May 10, 1940 - Manassas NBP, VA
June 11, 1940 - Cumberland Gap NHP, KY-VA-TN
July 1, 1940 - Little Bighorn Battlefield NM, MT (transferred from War Department as National Cemetery of Custer's Battlefield Reservation; designated NM Mar 22, 1946; redesignated Dec 10, 1991)
December 18, 1940 - Vanderbilt Mansion NHS, NY
April 5, 1941 - Fort Raleigh NHS, NC
August 18, 1941 - Coronado NMem, AZ (authorized as International Memorial; redisgnated Jul 9, 1952)
July 14, 1943 - George Washington Carver NM, MO
January 15, 1944 - Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt NHS, NY
June 30, 1944 - Harpers Ferry NHP, WV-MD (originally NM; changed to NHP May 29, 1963)
August 12, 1946 - Castle Clinton NM, NY
December 9, 1946 - Adams NHP, MA (originally Adams Mansion NHS; redesignated Adams NHP Nov 26, 1952)
December 18, 1946 - Lake Roosevelt NRA, WA (agreement with Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Indian Affairs for NPS to administer as Coulee Dm NRA; name change Jan 1, 1997)
April 25, 1947 - Theodore Roosevelt NP, ND (established as Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park; redesignated a NP Nov 10, 1978)
March 11, 1948 - DeSoto NMem, FL
April 28, 1948 - Fort Sumter NM, SC (transferred from Department of the Army Jul 12, 1948)
June 19, 1948 - Fort Vancouver NHS, WA (authorized as NM; redesignated a NHS Jun 30, 1961)
June 22, 1948 - Hampton NHS, MD
June 28, 1948 - Independence NHP, PA (authorized; established Jul 4, 1956))
February 14, 1949 - San Juan NHS, Puerto Rico
June 8, 1949 - Saint Croix Island International HS, ME (authorized as NM; redesignated Sep 25, 1984)
October 25, 1949 - Effigy Mounds NM, IA