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1930
Sunset Crater National Monument
is established near Flagstaff, Arizona. The site features prehistoric
cliff dwellings at Walnut Canyon, the mountain scenery and geology of
Sunset Crater Volcano, and painted desert landscape. Sunset Crater Volcano
last erupted in A.D.1064-1065, blanketing the region with black
cinder.
1936
Fort Frederica National Monument is
established to commemorate the fortress built to defend the British
colonies of Georgia and South Carolina against Spanish attack from
Florida. The fort is located on Saint Simons Island, GA.
1939
Federal Hall National Memorial
is redesignated a National Historic Site. It was here on the site of New
York City's 18th century City Hall that John Peter Zenger was tried and acquitted
for exposing government corruption in his newspaper, an early victory for
freedom of the press. City Hall also hosted the Stamp Act Congress, which
assembled in October of 1765 to protest "taxation without
representation." After it was remodeled for the federal government,
it was here at the new Federal Hall that the First Congress met and wrote
the Bill of Rights and George Washington was inaugurated as President on
April 30, 1789. When the capital moved to Philadelphia in 1790, the
building again housed city government until 1812, at which time Federal
Hall was demolished.
1977
The Eleanor Roosevelt National
Historic Site is established as the only national park unit dedicated
to a First Lady. The modest house near the Hudson River she called
Val-Kill, the only home that was ever hers.
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