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Located adjacent to the Chalmette National Cemetery, and within the boundaries of the Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, is the site of the defunct Freedmen's Cemetery, a four-acre African American burial ground that had been established by the federal government in 1867 to inter the remains of formerly enslaved men, women and ...
Jean Lafitte (c. 1780 – c. 1823) was a French pirate, privateer, and slave trader who operated in the Gulf of Mexico in the early 19th century. He and his older brother Pierre spelled their last name Laffite, but English language documents of the time used "Lafitte".
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in ... West Lafayette: 10: John E. and Catherine E. Christian House ... Lafayette: 35: Park Mary ...
Initially established as Sieur de Monts National Monument in 1916 under President Woodrow Wilson, it was later renamed Lafayette National Park by Congress before being dubbed Acadia National Park ...
The National Park Service was established that August, however, and Acadia was designated a national park, under the name Lafayette National Park, in 1919. It was given its current name in 1929. Dorr served as its superintendent from its foundation until his death. [6] John D. Rockefeller Jr. began construction of a carriage-road system on ...
Following violent protests in D.C. on May 29, planning began on an expansion of the White House security perimeter. On May 30, the National Park Service closed Lafayette Park and installed bike-rack fencing along the north side of the park. Discussions began between the U.S. Park Police and Secret Service to establish a more secure perimeter ...
Acadia National Park is a national park of the United States located along the mid-section of the Maine coast, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park includes about half of Mount Desert Island , part of the Isle au Haut , the tip of the Schoodic Peninsula , and portions of sixteen smaller outlying islands.
Lafayette Square is a seven-acre (28,327 m 2) public park located within President's Park in Washington, D.C., directly north of the White House on H Street, bounded by Jackson Place on the west, Madison Place on the east and Pennsylvania Avenue on the south.