National Memorials
A National Memorial is commemorative of a historic person or episode; it need not occupy a site historically connected with its subject. At present, there are 29 national memorials in the National Park System.
Arkansas Post National Memorial
Commemorates the first permanent French settlement founded in 1686, in the Lower Mississippi Valley.Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial
This antebellum home of the Custis and Lee families overlooks the Potomac River and Washington, D.C. Robert E. Lee lived in this home for more than 30 years.Chamizal National Memorial
Commemorates the peaceful settlement of a 100-year boundary dispute between Mexico and the United States through the Chamizal Treaty of 1963.Coronado National Memorial
Commemorates first European exploration of the SW, by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1540-42), near the point where his expedition entered what is now the US.De Soto National Memorial
Commemorates Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who landed on the southwest Florida coast in 1539.Federal Hall National Memorial
Seat of NY's colonial government and site of Washington inauguration, John Peter Zenger trial, adoption of Bill of Rights, and meeting place of the Stamp Act Congress.Flight 93 National Memorial
Commemorates the passengers and crew of Flight 93, who, on September 11, 2001, gave their lives to thwart a planned attack on the Nation's capital.Fort Caroline National Memorial
Two centuries of French and Spanish colonial rivalry in North America began here with the establishment of a French Huguenot settlement in 1564.Fort Clatsop National Memorial
After the Lewis and Clark Expedition reached the Pacific Ocean, they camped here on Oregon's coastline in the winter of 1805-06.Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial
A monument for the 32nd US president features a landscape of four outdoor rooms with granite walls, statuary, inscriptions, waterfalls and thousands of plants, shrubs and trees along the famous cherry tree walk on the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park.General Grant National Memorial
Popularly known as Grants Tomb, the largest mausoleum in North America (completed in 1897) includes the tombs of General and Mrs. Grant.Hamilton Grange National Memorial
The Grange, named after his grandfather's estate in Scotland, was the home of Alexander Hamilton, American statesman and first Secretary of the Treasury.Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Located on St. Louis' Mississippi riverfront, park memorializes Jefferson and others who directed territorial advancement as symbolized in the gateway arch.Johnstown Flood National Memorial
2,209 people died in the Johnstown Flood of 1889 and Clara Barton successfully led the Red Cross in its first disaster relief effort.Korean War Veterans Memorial
Includes 19 statues of infantry soldiers, a granite curb listing the 22 UN countries that sent troops or gave medical support, and a black granite wall.Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Abraham Lincoln lived on this southern Indiana farm from ages 7-21 (1816-30). His mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, is buried here.Lincoln Memorial
A tribute to President Lincoln and the nation during the Civil War. Features a 19-foot-high marble statue by sculptor Daniel Chester French.Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac
A living memorial to the 36th President, park overlooks Potomac River vista of the Capital and features 500 white pines and inscriptions on Texas granite.Mount Rushmore National Memorial
Colossal heads of Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln were sculpted by Gutzon Borglum on the face of a granite mountain.Oklahoma City National Memorial
Established to commemorate the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which resulted in the deaths of 168 people.Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
Commodore Oliver H. Perry won the greatest naval battle of the War of 1812 on Lake Erie. Perry's Monument was constructed on South Bass Island, 1912-15.Roger Williams National Memorial
Commemorates the founder of Rhode Island and the champion of religious freedom.Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial
Life and work of Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a military engineer and an 18th century champion of American and Polish freedom, are commemorated here.Theodore Roosevelt Island
Wooded island sanctuary on the Potomac River includes trails leading to an imposing statue of Roosevelt, the conservation-minded 26th President.Thomas Jefferson Memorial
The circular, colonnaded structure memorializes the political philosopher of the American Revolution and President from 1801-09.USS Arizona Memorial
Floating memorial commemorates the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the sinking of the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941.Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The black granite wall is inscribed with the names of more than 58,000 persons who gave their lives or remain missing in the Vietnam War.Washington Monument
Designed by Robert Mills, the 555-foot obelisk serves as a memorial to the nation's first president.Wright Brothers National Memorial
The first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than- air machine were made here at Kill Devil Hills by Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903.
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