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Grand Canyon National Park
Yavapai Geology Museum
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Open daily: 8 am - 7 pm. Yavapai Geology Museum offers one of the best vantage points for an overview of Grand Canyon geology. The building is right on the very edge of the canyon rim at Yavapai Point, The Museum Features: a bookstore and museum shop, large picture windows for viewing the canyon, and a variety of exhibits about the geology of Grand Canyon. Restrooms are in a separate building adjacent to the parking lot. The shuttle bus stop is also on the parking lot.
Chesapeake Bay
Essex County Museum & Historical Society
- Type: Place
The Essex County Museum tells the story of the Rappahannock River and Essex County’s rich history. Explore exhibits on early American exploration, the Revolutionary War, local river traditions, and the Pirates of the Chesapeake. See a scale model of Fort Lowry, boat models, and a 16-foot pictorial map of the river. Visitors can also enjoy the charming courtyard with a NASA Moon Tree and find unique artifacts from the steamboat era.
Star-Spangled Banner National Historic Trail
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
- Type: Place
The Battle of Baltimore, fought September 12-14, 1814, was the defining moment in the War of 1812. Following the burning of Washington D.C., British forces came to Baltimore, the third largest city in the United States. American forces, fighting against the great military force in the world at the time, held their ground. The epic event inspired Francis Scott Key to write the words that would become the U.S. national anthem.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Berry's Ferry
- Type: Place
This is a crossing used by thousands of Cherokee to cross the Ohio River. While others crossed or the bitterly cold weather did not permit, they waited at Mantle Rock.
Death Valley National Park
Stovepipe Wells Village
- Type: Place
An authorized concessionaire with the NPS, offering restaurant and bar, lodging, camping, gas, and convenience store.
Fort Stanwix National Monument
Sgt. William Jones
- Type: Person
William Jones joined the Continental Army at the outset of the American Revolution. He was stationed at the American Fort Schuyler/Stanwix during the Siege of 1777 and saw combat at the 1779 Battle of New Town. Despite having served well for three years, Jones eventually left the new United States for Canada, never returning to the original nation he sided with.
Grand Portage National Monument
Historic Garden at Grand Portage
- Type: Place
The Grand Portage historic kitchen garden is located inside the palisade behind the kitchen. The North West Company operated its post here from 1778 to 1803. Many vegetable varieties grown in the garden now date back to the 1700s and early 1800s. Vegetable varieties from 200 years ago and earlier are still available today because Native American and early settler families saved seeds from their harvests to plant in the following year. The seeds saved were handed down.
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Less than 4% of the tallgrass prairie that once covered 170 million acres of North America remains today. Park managers use fire and grazing treatments to maintain tallgrass prairie ecosystems at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. The Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network monitors these park prairies to evaluate the effectiveness of management treatments and help parks protect these vanishing ecosystems.
Gateway Arch National Park
Old Courthouse
- Type: Place
The Old Courthouse is the location of the first two trials the Dred Scott Case. Dred and Harriet Scott and over 300 enslaved persons sought their freedom here through the legal system.
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Charles Diuguid
- Type: Person
Charles Diuguid was African American, one of about one hundred “Free Blacks” in Appomattox County at the time of the Civil War.
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Enslaved People of Appomattox County
- Type: Person
In early 1865, over 4,600 African Americans were enslaved in Appomattox County. On April 9, 1865, after four years of war, Federal victory brough the promise of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation to Appomattox Court House and made emancipation a reality for all enslaved people in this region, including half of Appomattox County’s population. Learn some of their stories.
Federal Hall National Memorial
Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House
- Type: Place
Everglades National Park
Gulf Coast Canoe/Kayak Launch
- Type: Place
Non-motorized boat launch currently closed for construction.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Puʻuloa Petroglyphs
- Type: Place
A sacred site and the largest grouping of petroglyphs in Hawaiʻi.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Hair Conrad Cabin
- Type: Place
Hair Conrad was a Cherokee leader during the 1820s and 1830s. In 1838, he was selected to lead the first Cherokee detachment, which traveled the main (northern) route from Rattlesnake Springs (near Charleston, TN) to Indian Territory. This 20-foot by 22-foot two-story cabin was built about 1804, and except for the later addition of a kitchen, this log building still looks much as it did during the 30-plus years that Conrad lived here.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Bollinger Mill State Historic Site
- Type: Place
This mill was used by detachments to acquire supplies along their journey. Visitors can learn about historic mill operations and the types of supplies available to travelers.
Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail
Charles Hall Museum and Heritage Center
- Type: Place
This non-profit history museum features interpretive panels and maps that tell the story of over 3000 North Carolina Cherokee prisoners in several detachments who camped and walked through Tellico Plains on the first leg of their journey to live in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Visitors can view display cabinets of stone and clay tools and relics the local Overhill Cherokee used for farming, cooking, hunting, weapons and games.
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Three national parks in Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes, Haleakalā, and Kalaupapa. are utilizing GAOA funding to rehabilitate approximately 64 miles of perimeter exclusionary fencing - an essential tool for protecting native ecosystems and watersheds from the destructive impact of non-native animals.
Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument
A.G. Gaston Motel
- Type: Place
Headquarters to the 1963 desegregation campaign in Birmingham, The A.G. Gaston Motel stands today as a testament to the determination of African Americans in building a better future for themselves in the Jim Crow South.
Puʻukoholā Heiau National Historic Site
Empowering Local Youth, Restoring Sacred Lands: Puʻukoholā Heiau's Pili Grass Revival
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Puʻukoholā Heiau National Historic Site (PUHE) is demonstrating a powerful model of resourcefulness and community collaboration in its mission to restore native pili (Heteropogon contortus) grasslands.