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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 ...
On July 14, 1943, [84] President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated $30,000 (~$422,592 in 2023) for the George Washington Carver National Monument west-southwest of Diamond, Missouri, the area where Carver had spent time in his childhood. This was the first national monument dedicated to an African American and the first to honor someone other ...
Copy after George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1791), inside the Washington Monument; George Washington (1934–65), by Lee Lawrie, Washington National Cathedral; Stained glass window of George Washington at Prayer (1954–55), Congressional Prayer Room, United States Capitol
Fort Smith National Historic Site (from slavery to Parker's Court) Fort Smith: Arkansas: Gateway Arch National Park (Black Frontiersman) St. Louis: Missouri: George Washington Birthplace National Monument (Washington's Slaves, Indentured Servants, & Free Blacks) Washington's Birthplace: Virginia: George Washington Carver National Monument ...
George Washington Carver National Monument (Missouri) Solar Eclipse Program (Oct. 14) Shiloh National Military Park (Tennessee) Solar Eclipse Junior Ranger Camp (Oct. 14)
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
Moses died in Galena two years later. He is buried next to Susan Carver in the little family cemetery at Diamond, Missouri. 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. In 2004 ...
George Washington Carver Museum, The: Tuskegee: Alabama: 1941 [65] George Washington Carver Museum: Phoenix: Arizona: 1980 [66] George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center: Austin: Texas: 1980 [67] George Washington Carver National Monument: Newton County: Missouri: 1960 [68] Great Blacks in Wax Museum: Baltimore: Maryland: 1983 [69 ...