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American Revolution
June 28, 1776 - Battle of Sullivan's Island in South Carolina sees the Patriot militia under Colonel William Moultrie defeat the naval attacks by British General Henry Clinton, forcing British troops to return to New York.
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Gettysburg 160, Farnsworth's Charge
The rarely done Farnsworth Charge walk by Matt Atkinson in its predominant entirety, on the 160th Anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The July 3, Day 3, walk was two hours long, and includes the southern edge of the field from the Bushman farm to Big Round Top.
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Timeline of the Month
Timeline 1760s
New France was no more in the north and the British were about to enact rules and taxes that would bring the colonists to the thought of action one decade before those thoughts would lead to the American Revolution.
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Historic Site of the Month
Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni
Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument was pronounced a national monument under the 1907 Antiquities Act by President Biden on August 8, 2023. It surrounds Grand Canyon National Park on two sides in two states, Arizona and Utah. The lands had previously been part of national forests and Bureau of Land Management Lands, that will, or would, still manage the monument.
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National Parks
The history of our National Park system and other federal lands began in 1790 when the District of Columbia was formed. This included what now is part of our park system; the White House, the National Mall, and the National Capital Parks. But it was not until Yellowstone was installed as a National Park on March 1, 1872 that you could truly say that the National Park System was founded. Abraham Lincoln Birthplace to Cuyahoga Valley and Cesar Chavez.
Spotlight on Lesser Known History
George Washington's Birthplace
There's a good chance if you asked most people in the United States that they'd think Mount Vernon might be his birthplace, because his whole life seemed to center around there, or maybe Ferry Farm, where he spent much of his boyhood. But it was on the Popes Creek Plantation along both Popes Creek and Bridges Creek where Augustus Washington, his father, and second wife, Mary Ball Washington, birthed the first President of the United States in what is called Building X, an archaelogical find of the original house, now on site as a foundation ruin.
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Slave Revolts
March 18, 1741 - Twenty-nine years after the first revolt of slaves in New York, a second uprising occurs. Seventeen slaves were hanged after the revolt, thirteen burned, and seventy deported.
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Battlefield Preservation
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