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Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Skinners Falls River Access
- Type: Place
The Skinners Falls River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located near Milanville, PA adjacent to the Skinners Falls Bridge. It is owned by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. This is a canoe/kayak access only. Please note the Skinners Falls Bridge is closed to all traffic at this time.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latinx Experiences at Hanford: Frank Armijo
- Type: Article
Listen to clips from an oral history interview with Frank Armijo as he shares memories growing up in Pasco, his joy and passion in the work that he accomplished at Hanford, and advice for youth. Frank Armijo’s parents were initially migrant farm workers from Texas who had met in Walla Walla. On one of the family’s work trips to the state, Frank’s dad, Rosalio, picked up additional work with a construction company that brought the family to Tri-Cities around the early-1960s.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Damascus River Access
- Type: Place
The Damascus River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Damascus, PA adjacent to the Cochecton-Damascus Bridge. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. This access is open for canoes, kayaks, and other non-motorized boats.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Darbytown River Access
- Type: Place
The Darbytown River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located near Narrowsburg, NY across the river in Darbytown, PA. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. This access is open for canoes, kayaks, and other non-motorized boats. Motorized boats can be launched at this access.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Zane Grey (Lackawaxen) River Access
- Type: Place
The Zane Grey River Access, also known as the Lackawaxen River Access, is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Lackawaxen, PA. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. Motorized boats can be launched at this access.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Highland River Access
- Type: Place
The Highland River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located in Minisink Ford, in between Lackawaxen, PA and Barryville, NY. It is owned by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation. This is a canoe/kayak access only.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Latinx Experiences at Hanford: Adán
- Type: Article
Listen to clips from an oral history interview with Adán as he shares his experiences living with his family in Pasco, Washington for nearly a half of century. Embodying a lifelong commitment to giving back to his community, Adán excelled in education and eventually became an educator and counselor at Pasco High School and Columbia Basin College after working at Hanford for seven years.
Independence National Historical Park
PA Gradual Abolition of Slavery Act - March 1, 1780
- Type: Article
In 1780 the Pennsylvania Assembly passed the Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery into law. It was the first of several legislative enactments to abolish slavery in the states between 1780 and 1804. The act stated, “every Negro and Mulatto child born within the state after the passing of the Act would be free upon reaching age twenty-eight.”
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park
How Freedom Came to Big Pa
- Type: Article
“How Freedom Came to Big Pa” was published in the April 1916 issue of The Southern Workman and was written by Grace House, a principal of the Penn School. The essay shares Prince Polite's account of attending the Emancipation Day Celebration at Camp Saxton with his grandfather, "Big Pa", on January 1, 1863.
Upper Delaware Scenic & Recreational River
Buckingham River Access
- Type: Place
The Buckingham River Access is a public river access for the Delaware River located near Equinunk, PA. It is owned by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission. This access is open for canoes, kayaks, and other non-motorized boats.
- Type: Article
This is a series of lesson plans about the WWII home front, focused on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a World War II Heritage City. The lesson contains primary and secondary sources readings, photographs, statistics and other resources, as well as questions for students to consider. The lessons highlight specific contributions of the people of Pittsburgh, and they connect to the larger themes and understanding of the US home front during wartime.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Uptown Shopping Center
- Type: Place
The Uptown Shopping Center first welcomed customers in 1949 and was one of the first car-oriented shopping malls constructed in the United States. Although the Manhattan Project ended, the Hanford Site continued producing plutonium throughout the Cold War. The mall exemplifies the type of prosperity that the US Atomic Energy Commission promised to nuclear industry workers during the Cold War. Today, the shopping center is painted in an atomic-age design.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Green Bridge
- Type: Place
Built in 1922, the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge was constructed to accommodate larger amounts of vehicle travelers compared to the previous ferry system. Linking the cities of Kennewick and Pasco, the bridge was painted green and quickly earned the nickname “the Green Bridge.” This bridge had a direct impact on the social and economic development of the region. A plaque and some remnants of railing is all that remains of this steel cantilever truss bridge.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Lewis Street Underpass
- Type: Place
The Lewis Street Underpass and the railroad tracks on top of it created a formidable marker between East Pasco and Pasco. Outside of a few Black families employed at Hanford and allowed to live in Richland, East Pasco was the only place in the Tri-Cities where thousands of Black workers for the Hanford Site in the 1940s and 1950s were allowed to live. East Pasco residents had to travel through this dark tunnel to reach Pasco and its many services including schools and shops.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Green Bridge Historical Marker
- Type: Place
Built in 1922, the Pasco-Kennewick Bridge (the “Green Bridge”) in southeastern Washington began as a symbol of unity and progress. No one could have known then that the bridge, painted in green, would eventually gain a new and menacing significance, one of exclusion. The Green Bridge would become a dividing line between Kennewick, a community that sought to exclude Blacks, and Pasco, a community that sought to confine Blacks.
Manhattan Project National Historical Park
Naval Air Station Pasco (Pasco Aviation Museum)
- Type: Place
In February 1942, the US Navy purchased 2,285 acres (925 hectares) of land next to Pasco’s small airstrip for $5,000. The navy relocated Seattle's Sand Point Naval Air Station to Pasco to make it less vulnerable to Japanese attack. Soon, a vast network of runways, hangars, and barracks were bulldozed out of the bunch grass and sagebrush. The old tower now the houses the Pasco Aviation Museum.
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Each park-specific page in the NPS Geodiversity Atlas provides basic information on the significant geologic features and processes occurring in the park.
Gettysburg National Military Park
Veteran and Boy at the Pennsylvania Memorial Then & Now
- Type: Place
This photograph from the 50th Anniversary in 1913 provides a closer look at the bronze tablets lining the base of the Pennsylvania Memorial. The veteran pointing to his name on one of the tablets is Francis A. Culin, a sergeant of the 68th PA Infantry, Company F. A boy, perhaps his grandson, poses in the photograph next to him.
- Type: Article
In all, temperatures in 2023 at Friendship Hill National Historic Site were well above normal though total annual precipitation was close to average. The year ended as the 6th warmest and 58th driest since 1895 for Fayette County, PA.
Sitka National Historical Park
Bicentennial Pole
- Type: Place
In 1976, Sitka National Historical Park marked the nation’s bicentennial with a new direction. Although earlier poles had been carved and raised in the park by Civilian Conservation Corps carvers, the newly carved CCC poles were replicas of earlier poles from elsewhere in Southeast Alaska. In an era of growing Native pride, the Bicentennial Pole project set out to tell a modern story using a traditional format.