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The Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail passes through the park, alongside cliffs and volcanic tide pools. [157] Reconstruction Era: South Carolina: 64.99 acres (0.2630 km 2) The Reconstruction era was a period in American history following the American Civil War and lasting until approximately the Compromise of 1877.
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 ...
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1877 (3 C, 3 P) Residential buildings completed in 1877 (2 C, 1 P) S. ... Bismarck Monument (Bad Kissingen) C.
Lists of monuments and memorials to presidents of the United States (1 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Lists of monuments and memorials to people" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
Monument Canyon runs the width of the park and includes rock formations formed by erosion. The monument covers semi-desert land high on the Colorado Plateau and has a wide range of wildlife including pinyon pines, juniper trees, ravens, jays, desert bighorn sheep, and coyotes as well as a range of recreational activities. [71] Craters of the ...
There were almost 700,000 enslaved persons in the U.S. in 1790, which equated to approximately 18 percent of the total population, or roughly one in every six people. This had persisted through the 17th and 18th centuries, but the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in the 1790s made slavery even more profitable and caused a larger ...
A proposal to create the Reconstruction Era National Monument through executive action received overwhelming support at a public meeting held by Clyburn and the Park Service in December 2016. [7] The great-great-grandson of Robert Smalls —a freed slave who rose to become a member of Congress from South Carolina during Reconstruction —was a ...
The Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a monument erected in Boston Common in downtown Boston, dedicated to soldiers and sailors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts who died in the American Civil War. Designed by Martin Milmore , construction began in 1874 and the monument was dedicated on September 17, 1877.