What We Do

In honor of our 50th anniversary year in 2025, Cuyahoga Valley National Park is compiling this list of key dates in our history.

Now in its second year, park staff, in the spirit and tradition of the original Eisenhower Presidential Easter Egg Roll, encourage young visitors and families to engage in a series of fun-filled activities, including decorating their own wooding egg, then culminating in an Easter Egg Roll on the lawn of the Eisenhower home in Gettysburg, PA.

In the mid-1900s, at northern New Mexico’s Baca Ranch (which is now part of Valles Caldera National Preserve), owner Franklin Bond sought a ranch foreman to oversee and manage daily operations. According to his daughter, Mary Ann, Mr. Bond hired Richard Fitzgerald as a workaround for what would have been a deviation from gender norms at the time—hiring a woman. The person Mr. Bond really wanted for the job? Richard’s wife, Jessie Fenton Fitzgerald.

Stanford Trailhead is a small, unpaved parking area for Stanford Trail. This 1.5-mile trail leads up the side of the valley to Brandywine Falls. The parking also serves Stanford House, an overnight facility operated by the Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

The home and farm of President James A Garfield, nicknamed "Lawnfield," remains significant for its association with President Garfield and for its distinctive design. In 1880, visitors and reporters traveled to Congressman and presidential candidate Garfield's Mentor, Ohio farm to hear him deliver campaign speeches from his porch. After President Garfield’s assassination in 1881, his widow, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, made many improvements to the buildings and landscape.

The Worthington Farm, also known as Clifton, is a component landscape of Monocacy National Battlefield. Located just west of the Thomas Farm and alongside the Monocacy River, the property's patchwork of fields and woodlands represents the agricultural landscape that was present here in 1800s. The Worthington House is the only building dating to the time of the Civil War Battle of Monocacy.

Jefferson Patterson Park is in Calvert County, Maryland and expands for 560-acres along the shoreline of the Patuxent River. The site itself is an important archaeological site and showcases archaeological dig sites, hiking trails, interpretive exhibits and more.

The Proctor Maple Research Farm in Underhill, Vermont was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It is significant both for its continuous operation as a maple-producing sugarbush and for its contribution to the scientific study of the sugar maple tree and of maple processing.

HBCU

The Charles P. Adams House on the campus of Grambling State University in Grambling, Louisiana was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. The property is significant as the longtime residence of Charles Philip Adams, the founder of Grambling State University.