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The United States National Arboretum is an arboretum in northeast Washington, D.C., operated by the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. It was established in 1927 by an act of Congress [ 1 ] after a campaign by USDA Chief Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville .
Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens: National Park Service: Washington Smithsonian Gardens: Smithsonian Institution: Washington Tudor Place: Washington United States Botanic Garden: United States Capitol: Washington United States National Arboretum: Agricultural Research Service: Washington
The oldest surviving botanical garden in the United States is Bartram's Garden in Pennsylvania. [1] [2]This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States.
Based around Nevada's second tallest mountain, Wheeler Peak, Great Basin National Park protects 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines, a rock glacier, and the limestone Lehman Caves. Due to its remote location, the park is home to some of the country's darkest night skies.
The locations of National Register properties and districts (at least for all showing latitude and longitude coordinates below), may be seen in an online map by clicking on "Map of all coordinates". [2] The list is generally grouped by quadrant. The Northwest Quadrant has more than 400 listings, so it is further divided into three parts.
The National Capitol Columns are a monument in Washington, D.C.'s National Arboretum. It is an arrangement of twenty-two Corinthian columns that were a part of the United States Capitol from 1828 to 1958, placed amid 20 acres (8.1 ha) of open meadow, known as the Ellipse Meadow.
The quadrant is home to two large public gardens located below the waistline of the Anacostia River: the United States National Arboretum and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. The headquarters of The Heritage Foundation, one of the nation's largest think tanks, and The Washington Times, a daily newspaper in the city, are also located in Northeast.
This is a list of properties and districts in the Northeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 29, 2024. [1]