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Canyon Village Market & Deli is located in Market Plaza, across the parking lot from Yavapai Lodge and next to the US Post Office. The Market/General Store is open daily from 7 am to 9 pm. The Deli is open daily from 7 am to 6:30 pm. A large selection of groceries and souvenirs are available, along with outdoor gear for campers and backpackers.

Camper Services (Laundry and Showers) is located near the entrance to Mather Campground. Hours of Operation: 7 am to 10 pm daily. Last laundry load: 9 pm — Last shower: 9:45 pm. The Camper Store is closed at this time. Adjacent to Camper Services is a free dump station and potable water filling station for RVs. Several picnic tables are located outside the building.

The Backcountry Info Center is open daily from 8 am–noon; and 1 pm–5 pm, and provides information, permits, and trip planning assistance about day and overnight hikes into the canyon. The building is located in the village by Parking Lot D, and across the railroad tracks from Maswik Lodge. Park in Lot D, then take the free, early morning Hikers' Express bus from Backcountry Info Center to South Kaibab Trailhead.

Since 1649, there has been a Custom House in Salem, Massachusetts collecting taxes on imported cargos first for the British Government during the Colonial period, then for the American Government after the establishment of the U. S. Customs Service in 1789.

Jim Beckwourth, the African-American mountain man, scion of British nobility, great medicine and warrior chief in the Crow Indian Nation, US Army scout and courier, and discoverer of Beckwourth Pass and trail, settled here on his road for 7 years. He created several things we still have: Beckwourth Pass and Trail, located by Trails West markers, this cabin, and a national best seller biography, The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, 1856.

Honoring Japanese Americans who were sent to incarceration camps during World War II, the memorial features a zen garden-like design and a powerful sculpture of cranes entangled in barbed wire.

In 2020, Congress passed the most significant conservation legislation enacted since the environmental movement of the 1960s and 70s: The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA). This was great news for Fort Vancouver NHS, which secured $15.2 million of that funding to renovate Building 993, one of Vancouver Barracks’ three large double infantry barracks buildings.

In 1830, lithographer William Breton created a colonial-era street scene of the London Coffee House, a center of social and economic activity in early Philadelphia. Breton’s depiction includes an auction of five enslaved African people and an African American woman walking by with a basket on her head.

At Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site in Arkansas, exhibits tell the story of those times, and interactive oral history stations give you a chance to hear the people who were there tell the story in their own words.

Fingerweaving is the art of making material with the fingers instead of a loom. Prior to European contact Indigenous peoples in North America wove and twined with plants and animal fibers for a multitude of purposes. We know the beautiful, dense, warp-faced arrow and lightning motif sashes created by changing the weft that we associate with the Fur Trade are uniquely tied to North America.

The pueblo site and self-guiding trail are open Thursday through Friday, from 9 am to 4 pm. Located 3 miles (4.8km) west of Desert View Watchtower, the site is a small Ancestral Puebloan village showing the outlines of rooms and a round kiva. Visitors can walk a relatively flat 0.1 mile (200 m) self-guiding trail around the site. Visit the Native American Artisan Market with authentic and beautiful arts and crafts for sale. The adjacent museum is CLOSED until further notice.

The St. Francis Hotel has lived many lives: first as a place of business operated by early settlers Zachary and Jenny Fletcher, then as private residence and restaurant of the Switzer family. The original two-story limestone structure was built in 1881 and was a successful hotel in Nicodemus. The Switzer family bought the building in 1921 and built several additions while they lived there.

The First Baptist Church was the first church in Nicodemus, organized in 1878 by Reverend Silas Lee. The congregation met in private residences, a sod church, and a smaller limestone church until this building was built in 1907. The First Baptist Church served not only as a religious meeting place, but also a community building. The congregation built a new church north of this building in 1975 and are still active in Nicodemus.

During the Japanese occupation of Guam, CHamoru were forced to build defenses on the beach, including the pillboxes and bunkers that can still be seen today, in preparation for the American invasion. That invasion came on July 21, 1944, W Day for Guam. While a simultaneous attack took place five miles south at Hågat, the Third Marine Division landed on the 2,500-yard Assan Beach, marking the start of the Battle of Guam.

Explore ingenuity, creativity, and resilience through captivating exhibits, artifacts, and art at the nation’s first museum dedicated to African American history on a national scale. The museum holds the largest known collection of artifacts belonging to General Young from his military service and family life in Wilberforce.

The Corps reached the Pacific Ocean over a year and a half after departing from Camp Wood, and settled in for the 1805-06 winter. They built Fort Clatsop, a reconstruction of which is found at its original site, located in Astoria, Oregon. The Corp's presence in this area strengthened the United States's claim to the Northwest. It also paved the way for the first American settlement--the Pacific Fur Company Post, established in 1811 by John Jacob Astor.

In 1879, Steward submitted homesteadapplication number 9952at the Huntsville, Alabamalandoffice, requesting a patent for160and19/100 acres of land atthesouthwest quadrantof Section 14, Township3S, Range 6E in JacksonCounty, Alabama.

Built from 1937-1939 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project with local limestone, the Nicodemus Township Hall has served as a central meeting place for the community for decades. Representing the pillar of self-determination in African American communities, this building hosted everything from voting and township meetings to dances and roller-skating. It currently houses the site's visitor center.

The mission of preserving and protecting cultural sites goes hand-in-hand with preserving and protecting the landscape, and maintaining healthy and sustainable forests in the parks of the Northeast Region.