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Keweenaw National Historical Park
Hanka Homestead Museum
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The Hanka Homestead was occupied by members of the Hanka family, Finnish immigrants, from 1896 until 1966. Herman Hanka settled here with his family after he was injured in a copper mining accident. The farm was originally homesteaded at a time of mass immigration from Finland to the United States. The homestead is relatively intact and unaltered from its appearance in the 1920s. This museum is an official partner of Keweenaw National Historical Park.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
New Bethel Baptist Church
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New Bethel Baptist Church is one of only a few pre-Manhattan Project structures remaining from Scarboro community. The church’s congregation was founded in 1851 but this structure was built in 1924. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Located on the secure Oak Ridge National Laboratory grounds, the church is not currently accessible to the public.
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Lou is one of our passionate and knowledgeable volunteers! Learn his story!
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
Charles Robinson
- Type: Person
Charles Robinson was the third Keeper stationed at the Sleeping Bear Point Life-Saving Station. He had ancestral ties to the Odawa people, as his grandparents were of Odawa heritage.
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Learn about the decade-long effort to build a Memorial House to honor George Washington at his birthplace.
Valles Caldera National Preserve
Cowboy Cabin
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The Bond Family built this house in 1951 for ranch employee Sam Hill, his wife Bertilla, and their two children after Sam complained about the building of the red cabin for the Hoolihans.
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Sailor Jerry is a volunteer that has passionately been serving at Fort McHenry since 2003. Learn more about his story
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Winston Churchill
- Type: Person
His fame grew to the point that in 1899, the British Winston Churchill wrote to the American writer of the same name, praising his novel and promising to always use “Spencer” as his middle name to help prevent confusion going forward.
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Bill was inspired to help the NPS and learn something new along the way. He discovered that his family history coincides with the history of these parks.
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Burt has been a volunteer with the National Park Service for a couple decades. He is passionate and a hard worker. Jeff was inspired by Burt, who is his father, to begin volunteering as well.
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Perry is a very passionate volunteer that had extra time in retirement. He gives his free time to talk about the history at Fort McHenry with visitors.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Moses Cone
- Type: Person
The son of an immigrant, Moses Cone worked his way up from a traveling peddler to one of the nation's leading industrialists.
War In The Pacific National Historical Park
Mabini Monuments
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Two monuments to Apolinario Mabini stand along the Asan Beach Trail. Mabini was the Prime Minister and Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the first Philippine Republic from January 23, 1899 – May 7, 1899. When the United States acquired the Philippines from Spain at the end of the Spanish-American War in 1899, Mabini and his followers refused to take an oath of allegiance to the United States and were exiled to Guam.
Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park
Miller's Mill
- Type: Place
The brick house at Miller's Mill marks the farthest advance of the Confederate army. Early formed his line along Miller Lane, modern Cougill Road.
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To protect FDR, the U.S. Secret Service assigned code names to the president, his staff, and even certain objects that may have disclosed his location.
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Catherine Cooper speaks with Frank Perez about Stewart Butler and his legacy of LGBT+ and civil rights activism.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Stanley Abbott
- Type: Person
Stanley Abbott was the lead designer of the Blue Ridge Parkway. His vision of an environmentally sensitive design plan that preserved the cultural history of the route, guided the creation of a parkway that remains one of the most significant examples of landscape architecture in the country.
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Banastre Tarleton, a British army officer, famously commanded the British Legion, a provincial regiment composed of loyalist infantry and dragoons, in the southern theater under Lord Cornwallis during the Revolution. Feared for his ruthlessness by the patriots, his early successes in the field earned him notoriety. Defeated at the Battle of Cowpens by Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan, Tarleton's favor with Cornwallis declined. Tarleton was present at the surrender at Yorktown.
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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis and 2nd Earl Cornwallis, served as a British general during the American Revolution and notably surrendered his army to General Washington's Continental army and the allied French forces at Yorktown, Virginia in October 1781. This surrender effectively ended hostilities between British and American forces and led to peace negotiations, ending the war and recognizing American independence. Cornwallis later governed in India.
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Best known today for his military campaigns against the Indians before and after the Civil War, George Crook rose from the command of the 36th Ohio Infantry to the command of a cavalry division which fought in Tennessee and southwestern Virginia. During the war he became friends with future president Rutherford B. Hayes.