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Grand Canyon National Park

Yavapai Geology Museum
  • Type: Place

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.

Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site

Toinette Bachelder: From Warm Springs to the White House
  • Type: Article

Fellow Warm Springs polio patient and friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Toinette Bachelder worked in the White House as a secretary in the President’s private office. After FDR's death, she continued serving four other presidents.

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.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore

Tilman F. Smith
  • Type: Person

Tilman F. Smith was the second-longest serving keeper of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, serving as both assistant and primary keeper from 1878 to 1897.

Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

John Milton Hubbard, 7th Tennessee Cavalry, CSA
  • Type: Person

A brief description of John Milton Hubbard, author of Notes of a Private.

Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

Oscar Kelton, 1st LT Company A, 95th Ohio Infantry, USA
  • Type: Person

A brief biography about Oscar Kelton, the first to enlist in Company A of the 95th Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

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.

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.

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park

Julia Parmly Billings
  • Type: Person

Julia Billings

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.

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

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.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Edmund Jackson
  • Type: Person

Boston merchant and abolitionist Edmund Jackson served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Eliphalet W. Jackson
  • Type: Person

Clergyman and merchant Eliphalet W. Jackson participated in the abolition and temperance movements and served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

John Punchard Jewett
  • Type: Person

Active in Boston’s abolitionist organizations, John P. Jewett greatly contributed to the movement as a publisher, printing many antislavery works—most famously, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

Homestead National Historical Park

Cupid Steward
  • Type: Person

In 1879, Steward submitted homesteadapplication number 9952at the Huntsville, Alabamalandoffice, requesting a patent for160and19/100 acres of land atthesouthwest quadrantof Section 14, Township3S, Range 6E in JacksonCounty, Alabama.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Thomas Hunter
  • Type: Person

Boston paper hanger Thomas Hunter served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.