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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)