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National memorial is a designation in the United States for an officially recognized area that memorializes a historic person or event. [1] As of September 2020 the National Park Service (NPS), an agency of the Department of the Interior, owns and administers thirty-one memorials as official units and provides assistance for five more, known as affiliated areas, that are operated by other ...
National Memorials in the United States are designated by Congress. Most are administered or affiliated with the National Park Service . Some, such as the Lincoln Memorial , do not have the word "National" in their official names.
List of Confederate monuments and memorials in Georgia; List of Confederate monuments and memorials in Mississippi; List of Confederate monuments and memorials in North Carolina; List of Confederate monuments and memorials in South Carolina; List of monument and memorial controversies in the United States
List of memorials to Lyndon B. Johnson; List of memorials to John F. Kennedy; List of memorials to Robert E. Lee; List of statues of Vladimir Lenin; Memorials to Abraham Lincoln; List of memorials to James Madison; List of memorials to James Monroe; List of memorials to Franklin D. Roosevelt; Memorials to Theodore Roosevelt; List of statues of ...
Fossil Butte preserves the 50-million-year-old Green River lake beds, the best paleontological record of tertiary aquatic communities in North America. Fossils including fish, alligators, bats, turtles, dog-sized horses, insects, and many other species of plants and animals suggest that the region was a low, subtropical, freshwater basin when ...
Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in the United States" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of U.S. counties named after presidents of the United States; List of presidents of the United States on currency; List of educational institutions named after presidents of the United States; List of U.S. military vessels named after presidents; Presidents of the United States on U.S. postage stamps
The neighborhood around Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the United States Capitol has many historically and architecturally significant buildings and sites, including the Old Post Office, Freedom Plaza, United States Navy Memorial, National World War I Memorial, Federal Triangle, John Marshall Park, and Judiciary Square. [84]