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Blue Ridge Parkway

Stanley Abbott
  • Type: Person

Stanley Abbott was the lead designer of the Blue Ridge Parkway. His vision of an environmentally sensitive design plan that preserved the cultural history of the route, guided the creation of a parkway that remains one of the most significant examples of landscape architecture in the country.

War In The Pacific National Historical Park

Assan/Asan Beach
  • Type: Place

During the Japanese occupation of Guam, CHamoru were forced to build defenses on the beach, including the pillboxes and bunkers that can still be seen today, in preparation for the American invasion. That invasion came on July 21, 1944, W Day for Guam. While a simultaneous attack took place five miles south at Hågat, the Third Marine Division landed on the 2,500-yard Assan Beach, marking the start of the Battle of Guam.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

St. Vrain's Quarters
  • Type: Place

This second level room can be accessed from the first-floor dining room or the plaza promenade on the second floor. The room was used by Bent, St. Vrain, & Company partner Ceran St. Vrain when he was present or otherwise used as a temporary guest quarters.

Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail

Looking Back on 2024: from Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Superintendent
  • Type: Article

I really enjoy looking back at the previous year and recalling all the great work done by Lewis and Clark Trail staff and all the folks and organizations who combine their efforts. No one agency, organization or individual can claim the achievements that have taken place. It is always a team effort.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Emmert Martin
  • Type: Person

PVT Emmer Martin 9th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Battalion, Spanish American War.

Glen Echo Park

Chautauqua Tower
  • Type: Place

The stone tower, once an entrance gate and bell tower, is the only remaining intact building from the Chautauqua era. During the amusement park era, it housed the park superintendent and security offices for the park. Renovated in 2008, the tower now houses two artist studios.

Mount Rainier National Park

Huckleberry Creek Patrol Cabin
  • Type: Place

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

Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Type: Person

Carrie Chapman Catt (1859 -1947) began her career as a national women’s rights activist when she addressed the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890 at their national convention in Washington DC. She quickly became a dedicated writer, lecturer, and recruiter for the suffrage movement. She also worked for peace and was a co-founder of the League of Women Voters.

Nina Otero-Warren
  • Type: Person

In 1921, Otero-Warren ran for federal office, campaigning to be the Republican Party nominee for New Mexico to the US House of Representatives. She won the nomination, but lost the election by less than nine percent. She remained politically and socially active, and served as the Chairman of New Mexico’s Board of Health; an executive board member of the American Red Cross; and director of an adult literacy program in New Mexico for the Works Projects Administration.

Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore

Alexander & Catherine Goffar Farm
  • Type: Place

Gettysburg National Military Park

Nicholas Farrell
  • Type: Person

PVT Nicholas Ferrell was an African American soldier who served during the Spanish American War. Nicholas is buried in the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

Gettysburg National Military Park

Clifford Henderson
  • Type: Person

Pvt. Clifford Henderson Company A, 9th Ohio Regiment.

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

Reverend Dr. David J. Beale
  • Type: Person

Dr. David J. Beale served at First Presbyterian Church in Johnstown and was appointed a superintendent of the city morgues after the Johnstown Flood.

St. Elizabeths Hospital
  • Type: Place

St. Elizabeths Hospital, formerly known as the Government Hospital for the Insane, was the first federally-funded mental hospital in the country. In 1852, Congress established the Government Hospital for the Insane on 350-acres overlooking the Anacostia River in Southeast Washington. It would become an international model for psychiatric hospital design and a prominent center for mental health research during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

Mary Dewson
  • Type: Person

Suffragist and political activist, Molly Dewson was an influential organizer in the Democratic Party and national politics through her association with Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Oral History Interview with Sherda K. Williams
  • Type: Article

Ms. Sherda Williams begins by detailing the course of her career with the National Park Service beginning in 1990. She discusses her first impressions when she arrived as superintendent of Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historical Park

Oral History Interview with David A. Smith
  • Type: Article

Mr. David Smith describes the course of his career with the National Park Service beginning in 1982. He details the circumstances under which he became the Superintendent for Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in 2011.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Ralston Lattimore
  • Type: Person

Former superintendent of Fort Pulaski who developed the interpretation program at the park while emphasizing the Fort's Confederate occupation.

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.

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

The Little Rock Nine
  • Type: Person

In 1957, nine ordinary teenagers walked out of their homes and stepped up to the front lines in the battle for civil rights for all Americans. The media coined the name “Little Rock Nine" to identify the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School.