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Mount Rainier National Park

Laughingwater Creek Trailhead

• Type: Place

Hike to Three Lakes Camp or connect to the Pacific Crest Trail along this trail that follows Laughingwater Creek through the forest.

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.

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.

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.

Attack and Fortifications at Fort Laramie

• Type: Place

War In The Pacific National Historical Park

Liberators' Memorial

• Type: Place

At the tip of Asan Point, the six-sided Liberator’s Memorial honors all U.S. forces involved in the recapture of Guam. Each side is dedicated to a division of the Armed Forces.

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.

Mount Rainier National Park

Huckleberry Creek Patrol Cabin

• Type: Place

This patrol cabin is located north of Sunrise near the park’s northern boundary.

The White House and President's Park

Butt-Millet Memorial Fountain

• Type: Place

This fountain memorializes Archibald Butt and Francis Millet, two men who died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic. Butt and Millet were most likely involved in a romantic relationship, but because of the intense social stigma around homosexuality during their life there is no explicit confirmation of the nature of their relationship. This memorial, planned by their friends and approved by Congress, honors the two of them together, inseparable in memory as in life.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Calvin Charles Rice, Jr.

• Type: Person

SSGT Calvin Charles Rice, an African American soldier died while in service during the Vietnam War.

Fort Mitchell Site

• Type: Place

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Permanent Indian Frontier

• Type: Article

Fort Scott was established to keep settlers in Missouri out of Indian Territory and to keep Native Americans out of Missouri. Soldiers acted as a border patrol to keep the two groups separated. Initially, the soldiers' job was to enforce the promise of a "permanent" Indian territory.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Dragoon Expeditions in the 1840s

• Type: Article

Fort Scott was established to contain Westward Expansion, yet many actions soldiers took had the opposite effect. From 1843-45, dragoons went out each summer to patrol the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails to make them safe for travel. They met with Native American tribes, had a showdown with Texans, and made it as far west as South Pass in Wyoming where they spent a few tense days near Oregon Territory in the event of a war with Great Britain.

Mount Rainier National Park

Mystic Lake Patrol Cabin

• Type: Place

This cabin has served as a base for backcountry patrols in the north side of the park along the Wonderland Trail.

Denali National Park & Preserve

Original McKinley Park Headquarters

• Type: Place

The park’s first ranger, Harry Karstens, arrived in 1921. After a summer of meeting people, and a long patrol through the park, Karstens began clearing land for his headquarters on the northwest bank of Riley Creek. The location offered an ideal place to monitor people using the trail leading west to the park, but proved to be incredibly cold in winter—which led to its move in 1925, to a hillside offering much milder winter temps!

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Full Fledged Rebellion-War on the Border

• Type: Article

While no battles were fought here, Fort Scott served as a critical base of support and logistics for Union soldiers fighting in the area. Fort Scott was the focal point for one of the most diverse assemblages of Civil War soldiers who played a vital role in patrolling the Kansas Missouri border and the trans-Mississippi West.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Adolescence-Soldiers on the Frontier

• Type: Article

Have you ever had your job description change? Soldiers at Fort Scott were sent here to serve as a "border patrol" to keep Missouri settlers and Native American tribes separated. However, many of the events in which they became involved in the 1840s had the opposite effect. Instead of containing westward expansion, soldiers at Fort Scott became agents of the largest expansion of territory in US history.

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.”