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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 ...
Some privately owned memorials use "national" in their names, but have not been authorized by Congress. Such memorials should not be listed here. As with all historic areas in the National Park System, National Memorials are automatically listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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 William Henry Harrison; List of monuments and memorials to Sam Houston; List of memorials to Andrew Jackson; List of monuments of Pope John Paul II; 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 ...
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 ...
World War II memorials in the United States (2 C, 54 P) Pages in category "Monuments and memorials in the United States" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.
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.