George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver National Monument
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Location	Newton County, Missouri, US
Nearest city	Diamond, Missouri
Coordinates	36°59′11″N 94°21′15″W / 36.986361°N 94.354191°W / 36.986361; -94.354191Coordinates: 36°59′11″N 94°21′15″W / 36.986361°N 94.354191°W / 36.986361; -94.354191
Area	240 acres (97 ha)^[1]
Authorized	July 14, 1943 (1943-July-14)
Visitors	46,397 (in 2016)^[2]
Governing body	National Park Service
Website	George Washington Carver National Monument

George Washington Carver National Monument
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

Nearest city	Diamond, Missouri
Area	240 acres (97 ha)
NRHP reference No.	66000114^[3]
Added to NRHP	October 15, 1966

George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Newton County, Missouri. The national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the first national monument dedicated to an African American and first to a non-president.^[4]

The site preserves of the boyhood home of George Washington Carver, as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and the Carver cemetery. His boyhood home consists of rolling hills, woodlands, and prairies.^[4] The 240-acre (97 ha) park has a 3⁄4-mile (1.2 km) nature trail, film, museum, and an interactive exhibit area for students.

The park is two miles west of Diamond along Missouri Route V and approximately ten miles southeast of Joplin.^[5]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.^[3]

A statue of Carver as a child stands along a one-mile trail loop.

The visitor center includes a classroom modeled after one of the Carver's labs at the Tuskegee Institute.

References[edit]

^ "Listing of acreage – December 31, 2011" (XLSX). Land Resource Division, National Park Service. Retrieved 2012-05-14. (National Park Service Acreage Reports)
^ "NPS Annual Recreation Visits Report". National Park Service. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Richard I. Ortega (April 1976). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: George Washington Carver National Monument" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved 2017-01-01. (includes 2 photographs from 1975)
^ Missouri Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme, 1998, First edition, p. 60 ISBN 0-89933-224-2

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Wild and Scenic Rivers:	Eleven Point River
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