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George Washington Carver National Monument

Missouri · MO

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George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Newton County, Missouri, United States. 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.

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