NATIONAL PARKS & MONUMENTS USA — my personal visits
 
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a web page by Don Roberson
 
 
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS
NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS, NATIONAL MEMORIALS,
NATIONAL PARKWAYS, and NATIONAL HISTORIC SITES
[National Battlefields next page]

by chronological order of first visit
 
 
Order of
visits
Park

State

Photo
Visits [photo]
     

NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARKS

 
1A


Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

visited initially as a National Historic Site

KY

June 1967, Dec 2002

collage of two photos
by my dad: the birth
cabin (inside a
building) & the
park sign (June 1967)

1B

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park

visited initially as a National Historic Site

KY

June 1967

Knob Creek cabin was Lincoln's boyhood home from ages 2-8 (June 1967, photo by my dad). This is a separate unit of the current National Historic Park

2
Colonial National
Historical Park

VA

June 1967, Aug 1997

Yorktown battlefield, with 15-year-old Don (June 1967, BBR photo)

3
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park

VA

June 1967, Aug 1997

McLean House; Lee-Grant surrender site
(June 1997)

4 Harpers Ferry National Historical Park WV

June 1967, xx xx

view of river junction
at Harpers Ferry (June 1967). I'm 15 in the photo by my father

5
Independence National
Historical Park

PA

June 1967

Independence Hall interior; photo by my father (June 1967)

6
Valley Forge National Historical Park

PA

June 1967

George Washington headquarters at Valley Forge; photo by my father (June 1967)

7
Boston National Historical Park

MA

July 1967, June 2007

USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides;" June 2007)

8
Minute Man National Historical Park

MA

July 1967, June 2007

Concord bridge with
monuments & Minute Man statue
(June 2007)

9

Tumacacori National Historical Park

visited as Tumacacori National Monument

AZ

June 1970

Tumacacori Mission
(June 1970)

10A

Pecos National
Historical Park

visited as Pecos National Monument

 

June 1970

ruins of South Pueblo
(June 1970)

10B

Pecos National
Historical Park

visited as Glorieta Battlefield State Monument

NM

June 1970

sign for Glorieta Battlefield State Monument (June 1970); added to Pecos NHP in 1990 and expanded. I very much need to return

11

Chaco Culture National Historical Park

visited as Chaco National Monument

NM

June 1970

ranger talk on the kiva
at Casa Rinconda
(June 1970)

12

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

visited as Fort Clatsop National Memorial

OR
WA

July 1974

reconstruction of Fort Clatsop, OR, winter quarters for Lewis & Clark (July 1974). This reconstruction built in 1955 and burned in 2005

13
War in the Pacific
National Historical Park

Guam

Aug 1978

Monument and flags; photo by my dad, I think (July 1978). I was focused on finding Guam Crow at this site (I was successful)

14
Saratoga National Historical Park

NY

May 1988, May 2019

Saratoga battlefield
(May 2019)

15

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park

visited as National Historic Site

GA

Mar 1997

Museum in Atlanta
(Mar 1997)

16

Fort Sumter & For Moultrie National Historical Park

visited as Fort Sumter NM

SC

Aug 1997

view inside Ft. Sumter from atop wall
(Aug 1997)

17 Adams National Historical Park MA

June 2007

Adams mansion at Braintree
(June 2007)

18
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park

VA

June 2009

Belle Grove mansion (June 2009)

19
Pu'uhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park

PA

Jan 2012

cultural carvings at "place of refuge" on
Big Island, Hawaii
(Jan 2012)

20
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park

CA

July 2014

Balclutha, 1886 square-rigged ship (July 2014)

21

Golden Spike National Historical Park

visited as a National Historic Site

UT

Sep 2015

replica of Central Pacific RR steam locomotive Jupiter (Sep 2015)

22
Harriet Tubman National Historical Park

NY

June 2019

ranger and visitors head towards Harriet Tubman's late-in-life brick home in upstate N.Y.
(June 2019)

23
Women's Rights National Historical Park
NY

June 2019

statutes of organizers & participants of the 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
(June 2019)

24

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

formerly Mound City National Monument

OH

June 2019

Mound City Group
(June 2019)


 

NATIONAL MEMORIALS & PARKWAYS

 

1 Blue Ridge Parkway TN
NC

June 1967

my sister & me at a viewpoint (June 1967); photo by my father,
B.B. Roberson

2
Washington Monument
DC

June 1967, June 2009

Washington Monument and Tidal Basin
(June 2009)

3
Lincoln Memorial

DC

June 1967, June 2009

view inside Memorial
(June 009)

4
Jefferson Memorial

DC

June 1967, June 2009

view of Monument
(June 2009)

5
Arlington House,
the Robert E. Lee Memorial

VA

June 1967, June 2009

Robert E. Lee's pre-War mansion in Arlington, VA, now adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery (June 2009)

6
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial

SD

July 1967, June 1998

Mount Rushmore
(June 1998)

7
Coronado National Memorial
AZ

June 1970

view of Mexico from Coronado National Memorial (June 1970)

8
Pearl Harbor
National Memorial

HI

July 1978, Dec 2011

View of USS Arizona, from memorial museum (Dec 2011)

9 Natchez Trace
National Parkway
MS
TN

Mar 1997

Merriweather Lewis Monument with Grinder's House (behind sign) where Lewis died
(Mar 1997)

10
Wright Brothers National Memorial

NC

Aug 1997

Kitty-hawk Hill
(Aug 1997)

11

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

IN

Dec 2002

Boyhood Home Memorial sign
(Dec 2002)

12

Vietnam Veterans National Memorial

DC

June 2009

portion of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial wall (June 2009)

13 Korean War Veterans Memorial DC

June 2009

one view of memorial (June 2009)

14 Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial &
George Washington Memorial National Parkway
DC
VA

June 2009

Theodore Roosevelt statue (June 2009)

15

Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Memorial

DC

June 2009

portion of FDR statute
(June 2009)

 
 
and NATIONAL HISTORICAL SITES
 
 
Order of
visits
Park

State

Photo
Visits [photo]
1

Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site

DC

June 1967, June 2009

Pennsylvania Avenue looking towards Capitol, from Newsium
(June 2009)

2 White House & President's Park National Historic Site DC

June 1967, June 2009

General William Tecumseh Sherman statute in Sherman Plaza, part of President's Park
(June 2009)

3
Ford's Theatre National Historic Site

DC

June 1967, June 2009

Ford's Theatre
(June 2009)

4
Lincoln Home National Historic Site

IL

July 1967

Lincoln Home in Springfield, IL
(July 1967), photo by my father, B.B. Roberson

5
Fort Bowie National Historical Site

AZ

June 1970

view of fort ruins from stables (June 1970)

6
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site

AZ

June 1970

interior of trading post (June 1970)

7 Chimney Rock National Historic Site NE

Apr 1995

Chimney Rock
(Apr 1995)

8
Harry S. Truman National Historic Park

MO

Mar 1997

Truman birthplace
and grave
(Mar 1997)

9 Manzanar National Historic Park CA

June 1997

Manzanar monument
with eastern Sierra
(June 1997)

10
Fort Raleigh
National Historic Site

NC

Aug 1997

artist's rendering of the "Lost Colony" on Roanoke Is., now within Ft. Raleigh NHS. We visited between Mateo gulf stream pelagic trips

11

Charles Pinckney National Historic Site

SC

Aug 1997

Charles Pinckney home in Mount Pleasant, near Charleston (Aug 1997)

12
Fort Union Trading Post National
Historic Site

ND

June 1998

reconstruction of Fort Union and Assiniboine village, with storm approaching
(June 1998)

13 San Juan National Historic Site PR

Jan 1999

Castillo San Cristóbal fort, San Juan, Puerto Rico (Jan 1999)

14
Fort Point National Historic Site

CA

June 2006

Fort Point with Golden Gate Bridge (June 2006)

15
Andersonville National Historic Site

GA

Dec 2006

reconstructed wall and entrance gate, with "dead line" in front
(Dec 2006)

16
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site

GA

Dec 2006

Jimmy Carter boyhood home (Dec 2006)

17
Boston African American National Historical Site

MA

June 2007

bronze relief plaque of 54th Massachusetts in Boston
(June 2007)

18
James A. Garfield National Historic Site

OH

May 2017

NHS sign and Garfield's home, Lawnfield, in Mentor, OH
(May 2017)

19 Fallen Timbers Battlefield & Ft. Miamis National Historic Site OH

June 2017

Fallen Timbers battlefield with interpretive sign in woodland trail
(June 2017)

20 Herbert Hoover National Historic Site IA

June 2017

wax figure of Herbert Hoover fishing in visitor center in West Branch IA (June 2017)

21 Minidoka National Historic Site ID

Sep 2017

Minidoka detention site with guard tower
(Sep 2017)

22 Martin Van Buren National Historic Site NY

May 2019

Martin Van Buren's home, Lindenwald, in Kinderbrook, NY
(May 2019)

23 Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site NY

May 2019

photo of TR and exhbit on the 1901 Pan American Exposition at TR's inaguaral site in Buffalo NY (May 2019)

24 First Ladies National Historic Site OH

May 2019

First Ladies NHS is in
Ida Saxton McKinley's birthplace and marital home (while William McKinley was in Congress) in Canton OH
(May 2019)

25
William Howard Taft National
Historic Site

OH

May 2019

W.H. Taft's birthplace and family home in Cincinnati OH (May 2019)

 
     
 
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