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The National Park Service established the Stephen T. Mather Training Center on April 17, 1964, on the former Storer College Campus (1867-1955) in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. Named for the first Director of the National Park Service (1916-1929), Mather Training Center trains and develops Service employees from sites throughout the United States.
Storer College was one of the first institutions of higher learning in the United States to offer enrollment to freed African-Americans following the Civil War. Many Storer graduates became teachers, taking their freedom to learn to others.
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