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Women's history sites (National Park Service)

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Dr. Bethune saying goodbye to a group of students after resigning as president of the college.

The National Park System preserves and interprets the history of women in American society. Many national parks, monuments and historic sites represent America's women's history as a primary theme, while numerous others address American women's history somewhere in their programs and preservation activities. The lists of sites below is not exhaustive, but includes sites closely related to themes in U.S. Women's History. Click here for an article on Women in the National Park Service.

Park units

National Historic Landmarks

Alaska Region

  • Ipiutak site (Point Hope, Alaska). An archaeological site documenting Ipiutak culture, 100–200 BCE to 800 CE.
  • Iyatayet site (Cape Denbigh, Alaska). An archaeological site documenting human activity ca. 6000 BC
  • Kijik Archeological District (Nondalton, Alaska). An archaeological site documenting the history of the Dena'ina Athabaskan Indians.

Intermountain Region

  • Acoma Pueblo (Cibola County, New Mexico). One of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States, Acoma has been continuously occupied for more than 800 years.
  • Emigration Canyon (Utah). The earliest route used by settlers entering Utah, Emigration Canyon was the route traveled by the Donner Party in 1846; Mormon settlers entering the Salt Lake Valley in 1847 also traveled through this canyon.
  • Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio (Abiquiu, New Mexico). Home of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), celebrated 20th-century artist.
  • Granada War Relocation Center (Granada, Colorado). Also known as Camp Amache, this was one of ten concentration camps used to confine Japanese Americans during World War II.
  • Heart Mountain War Relocation Center (Park County, Wyoming). One of ten concentration camps used to confine Japanese Americans during World War II.
  • Ludlow Tent Colony Site (Ludlow, Colorado). In September 1913, striking coal miners and their families were evicted from company housing; they moved into a camp established by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). The following April, after months of sporadic fighting, a day-long battle tent colony resulted in several fatalities, including two women and eleven children. The colony was destroyed. Miners retaliated, and additional deaths occurred in the fighting that followed. Federal troops arrived, and the strike ended in failure. The United Mine Workers subsequently acquired land encompassing the original tent colony; in 1918, they built a monument to those who died at Ludlow.
  • Mabel Dodge Luhan House (Taos, New Mexico). The home of artist and art patron Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962), the home was central in the art colony that gathered in Taos in the early 20th century.
  • Old Oraibi (Navajo County, Arizona). Founded before 1100 AD, this Hopi village is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements within the United States.
  • Rankin Ranch (Avalanche Gulch, Montana). The home of Jeannette Rankin, elected in 1916 to the United States House of Representatives, making her the first woman elected to the House.
  • Topaz War Relocation Center (Granada, Colorado). Also known as Central War Relocation Center, this was one of ten concentration camps used to confine Japanese Americans during World War II.

Midwest Region

National Capitol Region

Northeast Region

  • Birdcraft Sanctuary (Fairfield, Connecticut). Established in 1914 by author Mabel Osgood Wright (1859-1934), this is the oldest bird sanctuary in the United States.
  • Bush-Holley House (Greenwich, Connecticut). Home of Josephine and Edward Holley, this was the center of the Cos Cob Art Colony, which drew many women artists and art students.
  • Canterbury Shaker Village (Canterbury, New Hampshire). A Shaker community founded in the 1780s.
  • Emily Dickinson Home (Amherst, Massachusetts). Home of the poet Emily Dickinson (1830–86).
  • Emma Willard House (Middlebury, Vermont). The home of pioneering educator Emma Willard (1787-1870), founder of the Troy Female Seminary. Willard opened the Middlebury Female Seminary in this space in 1821.
  • Florence Griswold House (Old Lyme, Connecticut). The home of art patron Florence Griswold (1850-1937).
  • Frances Perkins Homestead (Newcastle, Maine). Frances Perkins (1880-1965) served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under Franklin Delano Roosevelt from 1933 to 1945, and so the first female member of the U.S. cabinet. The Frances Perkins House at 2326 California St., NW., in Washington, DC became a National Historic Landmark in 1991. In 2014, the 57-acre saltwater farm where Perkins summered—property in the Perkins family for generations—was also named a National Historic Landmark.
  • Fruitlands (Harvard, Massachusetts). The site of a Transcendentalist utopian community founded by Bronson Alcott, Fruitlands was briefly home, in the 1840s, to author Louisa May Alcott. Later, preservationist and philanthropist Clara Endicott Sears opened Fruitlands Museum there.
  • Hamilton House (South Berwick, Maine). Novelist and poet Sarah Orne Jewett (1848-1909) set her historical romance The Tory Lover here; she was also instrumental in the building's preservation.
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Hartford, Connecticut). For twenty-two years the home of author and activist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896), the 1871 Victorian home that is today the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center was part of Hartford's Nook Farm[2] community. Other properties associated with Stowe include the 1806 Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Brunswick, Maine, where Stowe wrote her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin—also a National Historic Landmark—or the Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • Ida Tarbell House (Easton, Connecticut) The home of educator, author and muckraking journalist Ida Tarbell (1857-1944).
  • Kimberly Mansion (Glastonbury, Connecticut) The home of Abby Hadasseh Smith and Julia Evelina Smith, political activists involved in causes including abolitionism and women's suffrage. when the sisters contested the property tax assessments "taxation without representation", they brought international attention to the cause of Women's rights.
  • Lady Pepperrell House (Kittery, Maine). Built in the 1760s by Marjory Bray Pepperell, the widow of Sir William Pepperell.
  • Liberty Farm (Worcester, Massachusetts). The home of abolitionists and suffragist Abby Kelley (1811–87), the property gained notoriety when the Foster and her husband Stephen Symonds Foster (1809–81) refused to pay property taxes because Abby Kelley Foster was unable to vote,
  • Lydia Pinkham House (Lynn, Massachusetts). The home of entrepreneur Lydia Pinkham (1819-1893), a manufacturer and marketer of patent medicines in the nineteenth century.
  • MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, New Hampshire). A colony for artists and writers founded in 1907 by pianist Marian MacDowell (1857-1956).
  • Margaret Fuller House (Cambridge, Massachusetts). The birthplace and childhood home of Transcendentalist and feminist Margaret Fuller (1810–50), author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, among the earliest statements of feminist thought.
  • Maria Baldwin House (Cambridge, Massachusetts). Home of African American educator Maria Louise Baldwin (1856-1922), first female African-American principal of a school in New England.
  • The Mount (Lenox, Massachusetts). The country house designed and occupied by celebrated novelist Edith Wharton, accord to the principles articulated in her book The Decoration of Houses.
  • Nathan and Mary (Polly) Johnson properties (New Bedford, Massachusetts). Energetic in the abolitionist movement as well as the Underground Railroad, Nathan and Polly Johnson notably took in activist Frederick Douglass after he escaped from slavery.
  • Old Deerfield Historic District (Deerfield, Massachusetts). The district encompasses Historic Deerfield, an open-air museum and constellation of historic houses that interprets the history and decorative arts of the Pioneer and Connecticut Valley. The historic houses and landscapes were the subject of some of the first historic preservation efforts in the U.S., including the 1848 effort (failed) to preserve the "Old Indian House," and a successful late nineteenth-century effort, led by women throughout the community, to restore houses throughout the village, which became anchors in a larger expression of the arts and crafts movement.
  • Orchard House (Concord, Massachusetts). The home of Louisa May Alcott, and inspiration for the novel Little Women.
  • Prudence Crandall House (Canterbury, Connecticut). Abolitionist and educator Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) opened a private school here in 1831; in 1833, Crandall caused controversy when she admitted an African American student. The violent protest over Crandall's integrated classroom prompted her to close the school and reopen as a school for African Americans, but this too was closed by mob violence.
  • Rokeby (Ferrisburg, Vermont). Home of the family of Rowland T. and Rachel Gilpin Robinson, a family of Quaker abolitionists, this was a station on the Underground Railroad.
  • Sarah Orne Jewett House (South Berwick, Maine). The author Sarah Orne Jewett (1848-1909) lived here for most of her life. The home is today owned by Historic New England and is open to the public.
  • Shelburne Farms (Shelburne, Vermont). Established in 1866 by Dr. William Seward Webb and Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb (1860–1936), this was a model farm.
  • Slater Mill Historic Site (Pawtucket, Rhode Island). The first water-powered cotton spinning mill in the United States to implement Richard Arkwright's cotton spinning technology, Slater Mill would transform textile production.
  • The Wayside (Concord, Massachusetts). In addition to authors Louisa May Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne, this was the home of children's literature author Margaret Sidney (1844-1924)

Pacific West Region

Southeast Region

References

  1. ^ Lew, Josh. "10 women who changed the way we see nature". Mother Nature Network. Narrative Content Group. Retrieved 20 September 2017.
  2. ^ "Stowe's Hartford Neighborhood, Nook Farm". Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.

Sources

  • The First 75 Years, National Park Service, Preserving Our Past for the Future; Eastern National Parks and Monument Association, 1990.
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