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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. [4] The site preserves the boyhood home of George Washington Carver, as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and the Carver ...
Diamond is located on Diamond Grove Prairie along Alt. Route 71 13 miles south of Carthage and about nine miles north-northeast of Neosho.The George Washington Carver National Monument is two miles to the west, south of Missouri Route V.
The first completed monument to Washington. George Washington (1857), by Edward Sheffield Bartholomew, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore; George Washington (1947), by Lee Lawrie, Washington College, Chestertown. A bronze version of Lawrie's marble statue at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC.
3 miles (4.8 km) south of Monument 36°59′07″N 94°21′18″W / 36.985278°N 94.355°W / 36.985278; -94.355 ( George Washington Carver National Diamond
The site preserves Moses Carver's farm, which was the boyhood home of George Washington Carver, a scientist and educator who developed many uses for peanuts. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African American and first to a non-president. [97] Giant Sequoia. California
George Washington Carver National Monument. Collins, David R. George Washington Carver: Man's Slave, God's Scientist, (Mott Media, 1981) William J. Federer, George Washington Carver: His Life & Faith in His Own Words, AmeriSearch (2003) ISBN 0965355764
George Washington Birthplace National Monument (Washington's Slaves, Indentured Servants, & Free Blacks) Washington's Birthplace: Virginia: George Washington Carver National Monument: Diamond: Missouri: Guadalupe Mountains National Park (Buffalo Soldiers) Salt Flat: Texas: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park: Harpers Ferry: West Virginia
The Moses Carver farm became the George Washington Carver National Monument by an act of Congress in July 1943. The National Park Service maintains 210 acres (0.85 km 2 ) of the original 240-acre (0.97 km 2 ) farm.