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Capitol Reef National Park

Scenic Drive Stop 4

Type: Place

Erosion changes the landscape, from small holes in the cliff, to huge natural arches.

Wisely Chosen Ground Wayside Exhibit

Type: Place

The Bayard Rustin Residence is significant as the most important resource associated with Bayard Rustin (1912- 1987), a person of great importance in American political and social history. Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Rustin lived a peripatetic life as a social activist and organizer, living intermittently in a number of different homes. In 1962, Rustin purchased apartment 9J in Building 7 of the new Penn South Complex in the West Chelsea section of Manhattan.

Capitol Reef National Park

Pioneer Register

Type: Place

Take a short hike in Capitol Gorge to see the historic Pioneer Register where early explorers and pioneers carved their names into the cliff wall. It is illegal to deface, vandalize, or add your own name to the Register.

Parks Look for Ways to Alleviate Glen Canyon Dam’s Downstream Impacts

Type: Article

Vegetation experiments are helping restore Colorado River sites in Grand Canyon and Glen Canyon.

Everglades National Park

Sea Level Rise Threatens Cultural Sites in the Everglades

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In Florida’s vast, world-class wetland, climate change puts important archeological and post-colonial features in the path of a rising tide.

Accokeek Creek

Type: Place

The Accokeek Creek site was excavated in the 1930’s by Alice and Henry Ferguson who purchased land for their home in present-day Piscataway Park in the 1920’s. After excavating tens of thousands of artifacts, the Ferguson’s came to believe that they had rediscovered the site of “Moyaone,” the principal town of the Piscataway chiefdom visited by Captain John Smith in 1608.

Dry Tortugas National Park

Bird Key Wreck

Type: Place

The Bird Key Wreck, also known as the Brick Wreck.

Memorial Area at George Washington Birthplace National Monument

Type: Place

In the early 1930s, the Wakefield National Memorial Association created all the buildings in the Historic Area as part of the nation's commemoration of Washington during the bicentennial of his birth. The Association constructed these buildings to be suggestive of a colonial farm complex, and did not construct them based on historical or archeological evidence of buildings that existed here in the 1700s.

Carrington House

Type: Place

Carrington House, Cherry Grove, NY is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It is an important link to the development of Fire Island (particularly the Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove) as a community friendly to both gay culture and the arts because of its association with Frank Carrington, a prominent theater director and patron of the arts with a large circle of acquaintances whom he introduced to Fire Island.

James Merrill House

Type: Place

The James Merrill House in Stonington, Connecticut is nationally significant for its close, forty-one-year association with James Ingram Merrill (1926-95), one of his generation's most acclaimed poets---considered peerless among his contemporaries who were writing in meter and rhyme.

Parks and LGB Heritage

Type: Article

The NPS preserves a variety of places commemorating America's multi-faceted history. The NPS preserves cultural resources, such as buildings, landscapes, archeological sites, and museum collections. They serve as tangible evidence of our collective past. Explore these parks within the US with LGBTQ Heritage.

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

Commemorative Garden

Type: Place

The Commemorative Garden, adjacent to both the visitor center on South Park Street and the north side of Little Rock Central High School, documents a photographic history, inlaid on brick and concrete arches, as a reminder of the bravery of the Little Rock Nine and a legacy of Central High School. Within this space are nine benches and nine trees to provide seating and shade for a visitor to sit and reflect in this tranquil landscape.

A Window Into the 1700s: The Marrett House and Family of Cambridge

Type: Article

Before the construction of the Georgian mansion that stands at 105 Brattle Street today, this spot on the road to Watertown was the site of an earlier English colonial house. Archeological excavations in 2003 and 2022 uncovered the foundation of the Marrett house in the present forecourt (front yard) of the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers of the American Revolution

Type: Place

The Tomb of the Unknown Revolutionary War Soldier in Rome, NY was dedicated on July 4, 1976 in honor of the Nation's Bicentennial. The remains of 8 unknown soldiers are interred within it's grounds.

Lyndon B Johnson National Historical Park

Texas White House Rehabilitation Updates July - September 2024

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Continuing work at the Texas White House Complex includes archeological testing.

Petrified Forest National Park

PEFO Audio Tour North Stop 17 and South Stop 16

Type: Place

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Arch Rock

Type: Place

A natural rock formation that stretches over a set of winding stone steps along Alum Cave Trail.

Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

Defiance House Archeological Site

Type: Place

Defiance House Archeological Site is a set of Ancestral Puebloan structures, petroglyphs, and pictographs tucked into a corner of Forgotten Canyon on lake Powell. It is only accessible by boat and then a hike. Conditions of the hike are not monitored, so we do not know if it is too muddy to go there today. There are no amenities at the site, take care of your needs before you arrive. Visit with respect.