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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Pollinator Garden
- Type: Place
The pollinator garden at Resaca de la Palma Battlefield helps provide plants for use by local wildlife in a landscape where their habitat is highly fragmented.
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Fort Des Moines is a military installation in Des Moines, Iowa. During World War I, the fort served as the first and only training site for African American officers. During World War II, Fort Des Moines was the first training site for the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), and the only training site for WAC and WAAC officers.
Acadia National Park
Access: Sieur de Monts Parking Area
- Type: Place
An accessible description and transcript of the Sieur de Monts Parking Area in Acadia National Park. (February 2025)
- Type: Person
Susan Small was a seventeen-year-old wife and mother when she escaped to freedom with her infant son Philip aboard the Confederate steamer the "Planter."
- Type: Person
John Small freed himself, his wife Susan, and their infant son Phillip during a dangerous escape aboard the Confederate steamer, Planter. As the ship’s engineer, John was instrumental in the success of the mission in which he and pilot Robert Smalls brought a total of sixteen men, women and children out of slavery and into freedom.
Boston National Historical Park
John Kappa
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At age 20, John Kappa enlisted into the U.S. Navy. He worked as a machinist's mate, maintaining and testing different components of the ship. During World War II he served on the USS Colorado before joining the USS Cassin Young. Kappa was killed in action from a kamikaze attack on the Cassin Young.
- Type: Person
Cuff Whittemore was present at Battle Road in Capt. Benjamin Locke's militia. He later enlisted in Arlington, Massachusetts in Capt. Benjamin Locke’s company, in Col. Thomas Gardner’s regiment, and was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill in the redoubt.
- Type: Article
From July 1775 through April 1776, General George Washington used the abandoned Vassall House in Cambridge as his military headquarters during the Siege of Boston. In order to organize, administer, and command the army, Washington relied on his council of war, comprised of the senior-ranking general officers, and his "military family," comprised of the staff of secretaries and aides de camp at headquarters.
- Type: Person
Annie White made her daring escape from slavery to freedom aboard the Confederate steamer, "The Planter" in the early hours of May 13, 1862. Annie was one of two single women who joined the crew that night seeking freedom.
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A lawyer and influential secretary to George Washington, Robert Harrison helped manage the paperwork and communication for Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Despite personal struggles, he left Virginia in the beginning of the war to serve as an aide-de-camp at Washington’s headquarters in Cambridge. Harrison became a trusted and dependable secretary to Washington during the war and went on to become the chief judge of Maryland.
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Opened in 1926 and still operating today, Yaddo is an artist's colony offering residency and creative space to working artists. Founders Spencer and Katrina Trask envisioned a haven where artists could escape the pace and pressure of capitalism and increased industrialization.
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Edificio Comunidad de Orgullo Gay de Puerto Rico, commonly known as “Casa Orgulllo,” served as the meeting hall for the first official gay/lesbian organization established in Puerto Rico. Founded in 1974, Comunidad de Orgullo Gay was the first organized attempt to confront social, political and legal discrimination against the local LGBTQ community.
Acadia National Park
Oldfarm: Station Eight
- Type: Place
Sieur de Monts National Monument
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
Home of Daisy and L.C. Bates
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The Daisy and L.C. Bates Home is nationally significant for its role as the de facto command post during the Central High School desegregation crisis in Little Rock, Arkansas.
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
Joseph Bowman
- Type: Person
Major Joseph Bowman, an officer under George Rogers Clark in the campaign to take British Controlled forts in Kaskaskia, Cahokia and Vincennes during the American Revolution.
- Type: Person
Anthony Wayne, an accomplished military commander during the American Revolution, helped win our independence from Great Britain. Called out of retirement by President George Washington, Anthony Wayne reorganized the US Army and defeated a confederacy of American Indian nations in the Old Northwest at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in 1794, resulting in the Treaty of Greenville, which opened Ohio to white settlement.
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park
George Rogers Clark
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Lt Col George Rogers Clark was involved in the Revolutionary War in the Western Theater.
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John Laurens, born to a wealthy planter family in South Carolina, received a republican education in Switzerland and England. Upon his return to South Carolina to fight in the American Revolution, he radically proposed to recruit slaves as soldiers in return for their freedom. An aide-de-camp to General Washington and later a lieutenant colonel of the Continental Army with a field command, he served bravely in many key battles, only to die in a meaningless skirmish in 1782.
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
George Washington Spy Code
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General George Washington used spy codes to send important messages to his officers. Use a spy code from Washington's papers to decipher important words in a letter from him to the Marquis De Lafayette concerning trapping Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown.
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Two-year summary of findings from amphibian monitoring in two sites at the Barataria Preserve, a NPS property near New Orleans, Louisiana. Treefrogs and other amphibians are monitored at two sites along the Bayou des Familles using PVC pipes and plywood coverboards. Community composition and changes in the relative abundance of common species are tracked over time as indicators of park ecological health.