Английская Википедия:George Washington Carver National Monument

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George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Newton County, Missouri. The national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African American and first to a non-president.[1]

The site preserves of the boyhood home of George Washington Carver, as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and the Carver cemetery. His boyhood home consists of rolling hills, woodlands, and prairies.[1] The Шаблон:Convert park has a Шаблон:Frac-mile (1.2 km) nature trail, film, museum, and an interactive exhibit area for students.

The park is two miles west of Diamond along Missouri Route V and approximately ten miles southeast of Joplin.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.[3]

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A statue of Carver as a child stands along a one-mile trail loop.
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The visitor center includes a classroom modeled after one of the Carver's labs at the Tuskegee Institute.

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Шаблон:Protected Areas of Missouri Шаблон:National Monuments of the United States Шаблон:National Register of Historic Places in Missouri Шаблон:Authority control

  1. 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite web (includes 2 photographs from 1975)
  2. Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 60 Шаблон:ISBN
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