Russell D. Butcher - Exploring Our National Parks and Sites

EXPLORING OUR
NATIONAL HISTORIC
PARKS AND SITES

OTHER BOOKS BY
RUSSELL D. BUTCHER

Maine Paradise
New Mexico: Gift of the Earth
The Desert
Readers Digest Field Guide to Acadia National Park, Maine
Exploring Our National Parks and Monuments, Ninth Edition

RUSSELL D. BUTCHER

Copyright 1997 Russell D. Butcher

International Standard Book Number 1-57098-125-6

Library of Congress Number 97-66388

Published by Roberts Rinehart Publishers
6309 Monarch Park Place, Niwot, Colorado 80503

Published in the UK and Ireland by
Roberts Rinehart Publishers
Trinity House, Charleston Road
Dublin 6, Ireland

Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Publishers Group West

All rights reserved.

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Book design: Paulette Livers Lambert

Cover photograph: 1997 David Muench,
Gettysburg National Cemetery

Photograph on title page: 1997 David Muench, USS Constitution,
Boston National Historical Park

Printed in the United States of America

To
NERMANA
and to all those who, like her,
find magic in the National Parks
and
To
ELIZABETH
who sees beauty in the world,
as she projects her own rays of sunshine
to everyone around her

PART I
PARKS CELEBRATING AMERICAS DISCOVERY, SETTLEMENT, EXPANSION, AND GROWTH AS A NATION

PART 2
WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE (REVOLUTIONARY WAR)

Historical Sequence of War for Independence Battles and Other Events

PART 3
WAR OF 1812, MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR, etc.

PART 4
U.S. MILITARY VERSUS NATIVE AMERICANS (INDIANS)

(Nineteenth-Century Forts and Battlefields)

PART 5
CIVIL WAR PARKS

Historical Sequence of Civil War Battles

PART 6
TWENTIETH-CENTURY MILITARY PARKS

PART 7
PARKS CELEBRATING U.S. PRESIDENTS

PART 8
PARKS CELEBRATING WOMEN IN U.S. HISTORY

Maggie L. Walker N H Site

(see African Americans section)

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House NHS

(see African Americans section)

PART 9
PARKS CELEBRATING AFRICAN AMERICANS IN U.S. HISTORY

PART 10
PARKS CELEBRATING WRITERS, ARTISTS, MUSICIANS, etc.

PART 11
PARKS CELEBRATING TECHNOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

PART 12
NATIONAL CAPITAL PARKS

(not listed elsewhere)

PART 13
NATIONAL RECREATION AREAS AND URBAN PARKS

PART 14
AFFILIATED PARKS

PART 15
NATIONAL TRAILS

Alabama

Horseshoe Bend
Tuskegee Institute

Alaska

Klondike Gold Rush
Sitka

Arizona

Coronado
Ft. Bowie
Hubbell Trading Post
Pipe Spring
Tumacacori

Arkansas

Arkansas Post
Fort Smith
Pea Ridge

California

Cabrillo
Eugene ONeill
John Muir
Manzanar
Whiskeytown

San Francisco area

Fort Paint
Golden Gate
San Francisco Maritime

Santa Monica Mountains

Colorado

Bents Old Fort
Curecanti

Connecticut

Weir Farm

Florida

Castillo de San Marcos
De Soto
Fort Caroline
Fort Matanzas
Timucuan

Georgia

Andersonville
Chattahoochee River
Chickamauga & Chattanooga
Fort Frederica
Fort Pulaski
Jimmy Carter
Kennesaw Mountain
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hawaii

Hawaii

Kaloko-Hanokohau
Puuhonua o Honaunau
Puukohola Heiau

Molokai

Kalaupapa

Oahu

USS Arizona Memorial

Idaho

City of Rocks
Nez Perce

Illinois

Lincoln Home

Indiana

George Rogers Clark
Lincoln Boyhood

Iowa

Herbert Hoover

Kansas

Brown v. Board of Education
Fart Larned
Fort Scott

Kentucky

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace

Louisiana

Jean Lafitte
New Orleans Jazz

Maine

St. Croix Island

Maryland

Antietam

Catoctin Mountain

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal [from
Washington, DC to Cumberland, MD]

Monocacy

Thomas Stone

Baltimore area

Fort McHenry
Hampton

Washington, DC, area

Clara Barton
Fort Circle Parks
Fort Washington
Glen Echo
Greenbelt
Oxon Hill Farm
Piscataway

Massachusetts

Springfield Armory

Boston area

Adams
Boston
Boston African American
F.L. Olmsted
J.F.K.
Longfellow
Lowell
Minute Man
Salem Maritime
Saugus Iron Works

Michigan

Keweenaw

Minnesota

Grand Portage

Mississippi

Brices Cross Roads
Natchez
Tupelo
Vicksburg

Missouri

George Washington Carver
Harry S Truman
Jefferson National Expansion
Ulysses S. Grant
Wilsons Creek

Montana

Big Hole
Bighorn Canyon
Grant-Kohrs Ranch
Little Bighorn Battlefield

Nebraska

Homestead
Scotts Bluff

Nevada-Arizona

Lake Mead

New Hampshire

Saint-Gaudens

New Jersey

Edison
Morristown

New Jersey-Pennsylvania

Delaware Water Gap

New Mexico

El Morro
Fort Union
Pecos
Salinas Pueblo Missions

New York

Eleanor Roosevelt
Fort Stanwix
Home of F.D.R.
Martin Van Buren
Saratoga
Theo. Roosevelt Inaugural
Vanderbilt Mansion
Womens Rights

New York City area

Castle Clinton
Federal Hall
Gateway
General Grant
Hamilton Grange
Sagamore Hill
St. Pauls Church
Statue of Liberty
Theo. Roosevelt Birthplace

North Carolina

Carl Sandburg Home
Fort Raleigh
Guilford Courthouse
Moores Creek
Wright Brothers

North Dakota

Fort Union Trading Post
Knife River Indian Villages

Ohio

Cuyahoga Valley
Dayton Aviation
Hopewell Culture
James A. Garfield
Perrys Victory
William Howard Taft

Oklahoma

Chickasaw

Oregon

Fort Clatsop

Pennsylvania

Allegheny Portage Railroad