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El Malpais National Monument

El Malpais National Monument Visitor Center
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Start your journey through El Malpais at the El Malpais National Monument Visitor Center. Here you'll find information, rangers, a bookstore, and restroom, all to get you a head start on your adventure.

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area

Paramount Ranch
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The diversity of the landscape made the Santa Monica Mountains an ideal backdrop for the film industry. Paramount Ranch’s variety of scenic qualities, landscapes, plant communities, and natural fea-tures offered a myriad of scenery available to represent outdoor landscapes nearly anywhere in the world

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Cimarron National Grassland
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This 19-mile trail, between Murphy and Conestoga Trailheads, parallels the original Santa Fe National Historical Trail and allows visitors to experience what life may have been like for early trail travelers. Limestone posts help mark the original trail and interpretive signs explain its history.

Boston African American National Historic Site

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

National Mall and Memorial Parks

Anna Arnold Hedgeman (1899-1990)
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Anna Arnold Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century’s most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice . We honor her as an ancestor for shattering glass ceilings imposed on her by her race and gender.

Shirley Graham Dubois (1896-1977)
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Before Shirley Graham married W.E.B. Du Bois in 1951, she had earned a national reputation as a playwright, composer, conductor, director, and author. Born to a A.M.E. minister and a European mother, Graham was raised to appreciate Black culture and music. From a young age, her parents instilled in her the importance of social justice and the uplift of the Black Community. For her lifelong dedication, we honor her as an ancestor.

Boston National Historical Park

Frances Winifred Williams
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Frances Williams worked as a welder in the Charlestown Navy Yard and South Boston Annex during World War II. Her oral history provides a unique perspective as to what it was like working at the Yard during World War II.

Nicodemus National Historic Site

Nicodemus Newsletter January 2024
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This article is for the Nicodemus Newsletter, January of 2024. It is the information provided in the printed copy we have available in the Township Hall.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Tiptonville Exhibit Audio Description
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Interested in the Santa Fe Trail at Tiptonville? Take a look at this interpretive exhibit and listen to the audio description.

Timber Rattlesnakes Show Their Tender Side
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Sixty seconds is all it takes to be captivated by this reclusive animal’s motherly instincts.

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
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The Frederick Douglass National Historic Site preserves and interprets Cedar Hill, where Frederick Douglass lived from 1877 until his death in 1895.

Murphy Wagon Replica
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The Murphy Wagon was used first by traders on the Santa Fe Trail. Later, emigrants adapted the Murphy wagon to haul their belongings to Oregon and California.

Cinema Follies, DC
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Between 1975 and 1977, the building was occupied by the Cinema Follies, an adult film theater that catered to gay men. The Cinema Follies was frequently targeted by the Metropolitan Police Department during this short period. This building was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey.

National Mall and Memorial Parks

Dupont Circle
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Located at the intersection of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Hampshire Avenues in Northwest Washington, DC, Dupont Circle has served as the anchor of a neighborhood of diplomats, government officials, war commemorations, and the LGB community for over 200 years.

Capulin Volcano National Monument

Capulin Volcano National Monument
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Capulin Volcano National Monument provides access to nature’s most awe-inspiring work. Come view a dramatic landscape—a unique place of mountains, plains, and sky—born of fire and forces continually reshaping the earth’s surface.

Santa Fe National Historic Trail

Boggsville Historic Site
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Boggsville was once a stage stop on the Santa Fe Trail. Key businesses there were trading stores, owned by Thomas O. Boggs (built in 1862) and John W. Prowers (built in 1867). Boggsville became the seat of Bent County in 1870, but the coming of the railroad to nearby Las Animas brought about the town's downfall by 1880.

Fort Scott National Historic Site

Dragoon Expeditions in the 1840s
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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.

Frances Benjamin Johnston
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Johnston was the first woman to professionally photograph Mammoth Cave, she went on to photo-document life, blue collar workers and presidents alike.

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Charles Bent
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Charles Bent, alongside his partner, Ceran St. Vrain, and younger brother, William Bent, established the Bent, St. Vrain, and Company along the Santa Fe Trail in 1833. This adobe-constructed trading post beside the Arkansas River in southeastern Colorado was the first outpost between St. Louis, MO and Santa Fe, NM in its day. Charles and William's close association with Cheyenne and Arapaho nations enabled the company to prosper as a result of the buffalo robe trade.

Wright Brothers National Memorial

12 Seconds that Changed the World
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