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Beloved National Park Service Worker And His Wife Dies After Tree Limb Causes Fiery Car Wreck
Image via Shutterstock A beloved National Park Service worker and his wife have sadly died in a bit of misfortune. They ended ...
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Prescribed burns in Washington and Jefferson National Forests to be visible miles away
Prescribed burns in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests this week will produce smoke visible across the Shenandoah Valley. The U.S. Forest Service issued a statement Tuesday ...
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Mount Rushmore
The 60-foot-tall profiles of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln ... The state of South Dakota’s fireworks proposal carries significant dangers to park visitors ...
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How George Washington’s birthday became a national holiday
“Jefferson and Lincoln ... whose books include “Here, George Washington Was Born: Memory, Material Culture, and the Public History of a National Monument.” It wasn’t until 1832, the ...
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Forest Service cuts 15 employees in Va., with more to come
“I think the George Washington and Jefferson (National Forests) might be one of the first places where we start seeing the effects,” Vanderheul said on Monday. Before the cuts, the Forest ...
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Founding Fathers and Slaveholders
Jefferson extended it from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. Lincoln preserved it. Franklin Roosevelt led it to triumph in the greatest war ever fought. But it was George Washington ...