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Fort Sumter National Monument: April 28, 1948: Charleston: Charleston: First shots of the American Civil War were fired on January 9, 1861, and the Battle of Fort Sumter raged from April 12 to April 13. 3: Kings Mountain National Military Park: March 3, 1931: Blacksburg: Cherokee: Site of Battle of Kings Mountain on 7 October 1780
Restoration like preservation, it works to maintain as much of the original material as possible. However, the focus of restoration is to present the property at a specific point in history. As result repairs and recreations of certain elements or fixtures are completed and anything which postdates the intended period is documented and removed.
Reconstruction is "returning a place to a known earlier state; distinguished from restoration by the introduction of new material into the fabric." [18] The aim of reconstruction is to "preserve and reveal the aesthetic and historic value of the monument and is based on respect for original material and authentic documents." [19]
A $344,000 landscape restoration project at Aztec Ruins National Monument that got started on May 13 is aimed at protecting unexcavated cultural resources from erosion.
The monument was the first U.S. National Monument dedicated to the Reconstruction Era. [1] The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, signed March 12, 2019, by President Donald Trump, re-designated it as a national historical park. [2] It is administered by the National Park Service. [3]
An article in The New York Times of May 31, 1986, reported that inspection crews overseeing the restoration efforts had noticed several months earlier that a 5-foot-long (1.5 m) armature bar near one of the arms had been stamped with the forty names of the forty iron workers who had installed the armatures. The bar, which had to be replaced ...
Jefferson Davis Highway Marker, U.S. 60 at Peralta Road, near Apache Junction: Regifted in a letter by the UDC dated June 30, 2020, to the State stating "These monuments were gifted to the State and are now in need of repair but due to the current political climate, we believe it unwise to repair them where they are located." Removed July 22, 2020.
Its 100 figures passing before Father Time were created as a monument to the 100 years of peace between the United States and the United Kingdom following the Treaty of Ghent in 1814. Father Time faces the 100 from across a water basin. The fountain's water was turned on in 1920, and the sculpture was dedicated in 1922.