Charlotte Parks by Radius

National Park Service

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site
In the fall of 1808 Nancy and Thomas Lincoln settled into Sinking Springs Farm and had Abraham two months later. Here the Lincolns lived and farmed before moving to land a few miles away at Knob Creek. An early 19th century one-room cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born has been preserved at the site of his birth.

African American Civil War Memorial

Anacostia Park
With over 1200 acreas Anacostia Park is one of Washington's largest and most important recreation areas. Included in Anacostia Park is Kenilworh Park and Aquatic Gardens and Kenilworth Marsh.

Andersonville National Historic Site
Andersonville, or Camp Sumter as it was officially known, was one of the largest of many Confederate military prisons established during the Civil War. Today, Andersonville National Historic Site is the only park in the National Park System to serve as a memorial to all American prisoners of war throughout the nation's history. The 495-acre park consists of the historic prison site and the National Cemetery.

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site honors the life and work of the nation's 17th President and preserves his two homes, tailor shop, and grave site.

Antietam National Battlefield
This site marks the end of Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North. The battle claimed more than 23,000 men killed, wounded, and missing in one single day, and led to Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

Antietam National Cemetery
The Battle of Antietam, or Sharpsburg, on September 17, 1862, was the tragic culmination of Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North. The peaceful village of Sharpsburg turned into a huge hospital and burial ground extending for miles in all directions. These graves include veterans and their wives of the Civil War, Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII and Korea. The cemetery closed in 1953.

Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
This is the site where Robert E. Lee surrended to Ulyssses Grant which signaled the end of the Southern States' attempt to create a separate nation. The site includes the McLean home (surrender site) and the village of Appomattox Court House, Virginia, the former county seat for Appomattox County.

Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial
The Arlington House where Robert E. Lee called home for 30 years has been memorialized. General Lee gained the repect of the people of both the North and South.

Baltimore-Washington Parkway
Opened in 1954, the parkway is a 29-mile scenic highway that connects Baltimore, Maryland with Washington, D.C.

Battleground National Cemetery
The Battleground National Cemetery was established to mark the defeat of of General Jubal Early's Confederate campaign to launch an offensive action against the poorly defended Nation's Capital. With a combined total casualty figure of over 900 killed or wounded during the conflict, 41 of these (Union) soldiers were interred in a specially created cemetery dedicated by Abraham Lincoln.

Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area
The free-flowing Big South Fork of the Cumberland River and its tributaries pass through 90 miles of scenic gorges and valleys containing a wide range of natural and historic features.

Bluestone National Scenic River
This scenic river preserves relatively unspoiled land in southern West Virginia and contains natural and historic features of the Appalachian plateau.

Booker T Washington National Monument
Booker T. Washington, born a slave, founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, and later became an important and controversial leader of his race.

Cape Hatteras National Seashore
Cape Hatteras, once dubbed the "Graveyard of the Atlantic", for its treacherous currents, shoals, and storms, has a wealth of history relating to shipwrecks and lighthouses. These dynamic islands provide a variety of habitats and are a valuable wintering area for migrating waterfowl.

Cape Henry Memorial
This is the first landing site of 144 Englishmen who established the first permanent English Colony in North America at Jamestown. From this same site some 174 years later, citizens of a soon to be free and independant United States of America watched as a British fleet commanded by Admiral Graves engaged the French fleet of Admiral Comte de Grasse in a sea battle know as the Battle of the Capes. This French naval victory sealed the fate of General Cornwallis at Yorktown leading to his surrender with one third of the British contingent in America and the eventural end of the American Revolutionary War. Today this quarter acre of beach front is commemorated with waysides, a granite memorial cross, a statue of Admiral Comte de Grasse and a walkway ramp up the dunes to a magnificant view of where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Chesapeake Bay.

Cape Lookout National Seashore
The 56 mile seashore consists of three undeveloped barrier islands - North Core Banks, South Core Banks and Shackleford Banks These islands may seem barren and isolated but offer many natural and historical features.

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site
Today the site preserves the Sandburg legacy for future generations. The historic site consists of the circa 1838 antebellum house, a dairy goat barn complex which is home to the Connemara Farms goat herd, sheds, rolling pastures, mountainside woods, walking/hiking trails, two small lakes, ponds, flower and vegetable gardens, and an orchard.

Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
The park encompasses approximately 3,500 acres across 3 counties and includes the key partner sites of Belle Grove Plantation, Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation lands and Visitor Center, Shenandoah Valley Battlefield Foundation lands, and a developing Shenandoah County Park.

Central High School National Historic Site
Little Rock Central High School, now Central High School National Historic Site, is a national emblem of the often violent struggle over school desegregation.

Charles Pinckney National Historic Site
The historic site was established to interpret Charles Pinckney's plantation Snee Farm, his role in the development of the United States Constitution and the transition of the United States from a group of colonies to a young nation.

Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area
IThe Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area consists of a 48-mile stretch of the Chattahoochee River. In addition to providing recreational activities such as fishing, hiking, picnicking, and boating, the park contains a wide variety of natural habitats, flora and fauna, nineteenth century historic sites, and Native American archeological sites.

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park owes its existence largely to the efforts of General H.V. Boynton and Ferdinand Van Derveer, both veterans of the Army of the Cumberland, who saw the need for a national park to preserve and commemorate these battlefields during a visit to the area in 1888.

Clara Barton National Historic Site
Clara Barton National Historic Site commemorates the life of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.

Claude Moore Colonial Farm
Claude Moore Colonial Farm is a living history site that demonstrates the life of a poor farm family living on a small farm in northern Virginia just prior to the American Revolutionary War.

Colonial National Historical Park
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607, is administered jointly with the Yorktown Battlefield, the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1781. These two sites represent the beginning and end of English colonial America.

Congaree National Park
The monument rests on a floodplain of the Congaree River and is not a true swamp. This remnant preserves the largest intact tract of old-growth bottomland hardwood forest in the United States.

Constitution Gardens
Constitution Gardens is a living legacy to the founding of the republic as well as an oasis in the midst of a city landscape.

Cowpens National Battlefield
Cowpens National Battlefield commemorates a decisive battle that helped turn the tide of war in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. The battle at the "Cow Pens" is recognized by historians as one of the most important of the American Revolution.

Cumberland Gap National Historical Park
The story of the first doorway to the west is commemorated at the national park, located where the borders of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia meet. Carved by wind and water, Cumberland Gap forms a major break in the formidable Appalachian Mountain chain.

Fords Theatre National Historic Site
Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed, just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. A well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth stepped into the president's box. Booth's decision to pull the trigger altered the nation's power to reconstruct after the war. Booth escaped into the night as Abraham Lincoln was carried to the Petersen boarding house across the street. It was there that President Lincoln died.

Fort Dupont Park
Fort Dupont Park is named for the Civil War earthwork fort located within the park. It is one of the forts that are collectively known as the "Fort Circle Parks", or the Civil War Defenses of Washington.

Fort Foote Park
Fort Foote was designed to protect the river entrance to the ports of Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington and replace the aging Fort Washington as the primary river defense. The fort was named for Rear Adm. Andrew H. Foote who died in 1863 from wounds he received in combat the previous year.

Fort Frederica National Monument
Fort Frederica was established to protect the southern boundary of his new colony of Georgia.

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
The valiant defense of the fort by 1,000 dedicated Americans inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star-Spangled Banner. The defenders of Fort McHenry stopped the British advance on Baltimore and helped to preserve the United States of America. Following the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812, the fort never again came under attack. It remained an active military post off and on for the next 100 years.

Fort Moultrie National Monument
Fort Moultrie's history covers 171 years of seacoast defense, including the first decisive victory in the American Revolution and the firing onto Fort Sumter during the first battle of the Civil War. The third Fort Moultrie, built in 1809, stands today.

Fort Pulaski National Monument
The defining events of Fort Pulaski occurred during the American Civil War. Union troops directed rifled cannon fire at the fort breaching the southeast angle. The accuracy and range of the rifled cannon rendered brick fortifications obsolete. Immediately after capturing the fort, Union Major General David Hunter, an ardent abolitionist, ordered the release of area slaves. Many were recruited into the Union army comprising the First South Carolina Colored Regiment.

Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
The first English attempts at colonization in the New World (1585-1587) are commemorated here. These efforts, sponsored by Sir Walter Raleigh, ended with the disappearance of 116 men, women and children (including two that were born in the New World). The fate of this "lost colony" remains a mystery to this day.

Fort Sumter National Monument
America's most tragic conflict ignited at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, when a chain reaction of social, economic and political events exploded into civil war. At the heart of these events was the issue of states rights versus federal authority flowing over the underlying issue of slavery.

Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
From 1877 to 1895, this was the home of Frederick Douglass, the Nation's leading 19th-century African American spokesman. Among his many achievements were efforts to abolish slavery and his struggle for Human Rights, Equal Rights and Civil Rights for all oppressed people.

Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvaniathis is the bloodiest landscape in North America. No place more vividly reflects the Civil Wars tragic cost, in all its forms. More than 85,000 men wounded; 15,000 killedmost now in graves unknown.

Fredericksburg National Cemetery
In July 1865, Congress authorized the establishment of a National Cemetery in Fredericksburg to honor the Federal soldiers who died on the battlefields or from disease in camp.

Gauley River National Recreation Area
The 25 miles of free-flowing Gauley River pass through scenic gorges and valleys containing a wide variety of natural and cultural features.

George Washington Birthplace National Monument
Today this 550-acre park memorializes George Washington and the place of his birth. The park includes: the brick foundation of the house where he was born; the Washington family cemetery where Georges father, grandfather, and great-grandfather are buried; the historical area with the Memorial House, kitchen, and typical plantation surroundings; the picnic grounds with a nature trail; and the Potomac River beach area.

George Washington Memorial Parkway
George Washington Memorial Parkway connects the historic sites from Mount Vernon, where Washington lived, past the nation's capital, to the Great Falls of the Potomac where the President demonstrated his skill as an engineer.

Glen Echo Park
The land and the historic buildings are a back drop for a rich arts education program.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park
World renowned for the diversity of its plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, the quality of its remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture, and the depth and integrity of its wilderness sanctuary, the park attracts over nine million visitors each year.

Hampton National Historic Site
The park preserves a vast estate from the 1700s. Hampton was the largest house in the United States. It is the story of a seven generation family business, early American industry and commerce, and changing cultural tastes.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Harpers Ferry has been the backdrop for remarkable and unparalleled events such as Native Americans, industry and transportation, African-Americans, John Brown, and the Civil War,.

Hopewell Culture National Historical Park
The park contains nationally significant archeological resources including large earthwork and mound complexes that provide an insight into the social, ceremonial, political, and economic life of the Hopewell people.

Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
On the morning of 27 March 1814, General Andrew Jackson and an army of 3,300 men attacked Chief Menawa and 1,000 Upper Creek or Red Stick warriors fortified in the "horseshoe" bend of the Tallapoosa River. This was the final battle of the Creek War of 1813-14, which is considered part of the War of 1812. The victory here brought Andrew Jackson national attention and helped him to be elected the seventh President of the United States in 1828.

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
The site includes President Carters residence, boyhood farm, school, and the railroad depot, which served as his campaign headquarters during the 1976 election.

John Ericsson National Memorial

Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens
Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens constitutes some 700 acres and is part of Anacostia Park. The Park includes the "Gardens", Kenilworth Marsh, ballfields and recreational facilities. The Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens is the only National Park Service site devoted to the propagation and display of aquatic plants

Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield is a 2,888 acre National Battlefield that preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign.

Kings Mountain National Military Park
Kings Mountain National Military Park commemorates a pivotal and significant victory by American Patriots over American Loyalists during the Southern Campaign of the Revolutionary War.

Lincoln Memorial
A sculpture of a seated Lincoln is in the center of the memorial chamber. Inscribed on the south wall of the monument is the Gettysburg Address. Above it is a mural depicting the angel of truth freeing a slave. The unity of North and South mural is on the north wall. Etched into the north wall below the mural is Lincolns second inaugural speech.

Little River Canyon National Preserve
Little River flows for most of its length atop Lookout Mountain in northeast Alabama. The river and canyon systems are spectacular Appalachian Plateau landscapes.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac
The Memorial is located in Lady Bird Johnson Park, a Potomac River island in Washington, D.C. The first area, is a granite monolith surrounded by a serpentine pattern of walks and trails. The second area is a grass meadow .

Maggie L Walker National Historic Site
The Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site commemorates the life of a progressive and talented African American woman. She achieved success in the world of business and finance as the first woman in the United States to found and serve as president of a bank.

Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave National Park was established to preserve the cave system, including Mammoth Cave, the scenic river valleys of the Green and Nolin rivers, and a section of south central Kentucky.

Manassas National Battlefield Park
Manassas National Battlefield Park was established in 1940 to preserve the scene of two major Civil War battles.

Martin Luther King Jr National Historic Site
The home is located in the residential section of "Sweet Auburn", the center of black Atlanta. Two blocks west of the home is Ebenezer Baptist Church, the pastorate of Martin's grandfather and father. It was in these surroundings of home, church and neighborhood that "M.L." experienced his childhood.

Monocacy National Battlefield
Known as the "Battle That Saved Washington", the battle of Monocacy on July 9, 1864 between 18,000 Confederate forces, and 5,800 Union forces, marked the last campaign of the Confederacy to carry the war into the north. One of the objectives of this campaign was to capture Washington, D.C. which was a defeat.

Moores Creek National Battlefield
The 88 acre park commemorates the decisive February 27, 1776 victory by 1,000 Patriots over 1,600 Loyalists at the Battle of Moores Creek Bridge.

National Capital Parks-Central
The National Capital Parks-Central preserves and interprets more than a dozen NPS areas including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Ford's Theatre National Historic Site and the House Where Lincoln Died (Petersen House), Pennsylvania Avenue National Historical Park, and the Old Post Office Tower

National Capital Parks East
NCP-East offers a wide array of historic, natural, and recreational areas that are a part of Washington, D.C. The park includes 12 major park areas at 98 locations. Significant resources are as diverse as statuary, historic sites and buildings, recreation areas, parkways, archeological sites, tidal and non-tidal wetlands, meadows, and forests; and encompass over 8,000 acres.

National Mall
The National Mall includes the 2,000 American elms which line the Mall and the 3,000 internationally renowned Japanese cherry trees which grace the Tidal Basin. Gardens that display thousands of tulips, pansies and annuals in over 170 flower beds, and 35 ornamental pools and fountains range from the simple to the sublime.

National World War II Memorial
The National World War II Memorial, located on the National Mall in Washington, DC commemorates the sacrifice and celebrates the victory of the WWII generation.

New River Gorge National River
New River Gorge National River was established to conserve and protect 53 miles of the New River as a free-flowing waterway.

Ninety Six National Historic Site
Ninety Six figures prominently in the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution. The first land battle south of New England was fought here in 1775 and in 1780. The park site covers 989.14 acres.

Obed Wild and Scenic River
Over 45 miles of creeks and rivers are included in the wild and scenic river area. These waterways have cut rugged gorges with bluffs as high as 500 feet above the whitewater in the streams.

Ocmulgee National Monument
The National Monument preserves a continuous record of human life in the Southeast from the earliest times to the present. Between AD 900 and 1200 a skillful farming people lived on this site, known to us as Mississippians. The Mississippians brought a more complex way of life to the region and here they left behind eight earthen mounds and the remains of a ceremonial earthlodge.

Old Post Office Tower
The Old Post Office is one of the last remaining examples of Richardsonian Romanesque Architecture in Washington, D.C. The Old Post Office Tower is also home to the bells of the U.S. Congress.

Oxon Cove Park and Oxon Hill Farm
The primary feature of Oxon Cove Park is Oxon Hill Farm which operates as an actual working farm, representative of the early 20th century.

Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site
Pennsylvania Avenue is called the "Avenue of the Presidents" and "America's Main Street." The Avenue is, America's Ceremonial Way, the place where the Nation comes to commemorate its tragedies and triumphs. It is known the world over as the heart of the Nation's Capital.

Petersburg National Battlefield
Petersburg, Virginia, became the setting for the longest siege in American history when General Ulysses S. Grant failed to capture Richmond. Grant settled in to subdue the Confederacy by surrounding Petersburg and cutting off General Robert E. Lee's supply lines into Petersburg and Richmond. On April 2, 1865, nine-and-one-half months after the siege began, Lee evacuated Petersburg.

Pierce Mill
Peirce Mill was built in the 1820's, and operated commercially until 1897. Currently the mill is not operating. Peirce Mill remain's open to the public as a museum and ranger contact station.

Piscataway Park
The tranquil view from Mount Vernon of the Maryland shore of the Potomac is preserved as a pilot project in the use of easements to protect parklands from obtrusive urban expansion.

Poplar Grove National Cemetery
With more than 6,000 graves, Poplar Grove National Cemetery reflects the tragedy that befell the United States during the Civil War.

Prince William Forest Park
Prince William Forest Park is the largest natural area in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan region at over 15,000 acres.

Richmond National Battlefield Park
Between 1861 and 1865, Union armies repeatedly set out to capture Richmond, capital of the Confederacy, and end the Civil War. Three of those campaigns came within a few miles of the city.

Rock Creek Park
Visitors walk in the footsteps of Algonquin Indians, the Old Stone House attests to a time when Washington, D.C. was a new capital, Peirce Mill reminds us how a new technology aided the economic growth of the nation, and Civil War remnants divulge stories of unrest.

Russell Cave National Monument
The story of Russell Cave National Monument is one of adaptation and survival. Adaptation of people to an ever changing social and natural environment, as well as discovery of the bountiful resources the forest provided, and development of the skills to use these resources for survival.

Sewall-Belmont House National Historic Site
The Sewall-Belmont House was built by Robert Sewall in 1799-1800 and was named for him and for Alva Belmont, whose financial contribution enabled the National Woman's Party to purchase the house. It has been the headquarters of the National Women's Party since 1929.

Shenandoah National Park
Shenandoah National Park lies astride a beautiful section of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which form the eastern rampart of the Appalachian Mountains between Pennsylvania and Georgia.

The Old Stone House
The Old Stone House, one of the oldest known structures remaining in the nation's capital, is a simple 18th century dwelling. The house itself is a popular museum to everyday life of middle class colonial America.

Theodore Roosevelt Island Park
After Roosevelt's death on January 6, 1919, citizens wanted to establish a memorial in his honor. The wooded island in the Potomac seemed the perfect place. This island is a fitting memorial to the outdoorsman, naturalist, and visionary he was.

Thomas Stone National Historic Site
Thomas Stone is the story of man who signed the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Stone National Historic Site has a restored manor house and a collection of 19th century outbuildings.

Tuskegee Airman National Historic Site
The military selected Tuskegee Institute to train pilots because of its commitment to aeronautical training. The Tuskegee program became the center for African-American aviation during World War II.

Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site
The history of this great institution has been preserved to tell the story of men and women who were former slaves. African-American history, early industrial development, civil rights, and education are some of the themes represented at this site.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial serves as a testament to the sacrifice of American military personnel during one of this nation's least popular wars.

William Howard Taft National Historic Site
The William Howard Taft National Historic Site commemorates the only man to serve as President and Chief Justice of the United States.

Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts began as a gift to the American people from Catherine Filene Shouse. Congress accepted Mrs. Shouse's gift and authorized Wolf Trap Farm Park as the first national park for the performing arts.

Wright Brothers National Memorial
The first successful sustained powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine were made here by Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17, 1903. A 60-foot granite monument, is perched atop Kill Devil Hill commemorating the achievement of these two visionaries from Dayton, Ohio.

Yorktown Battlefield
Yorktown Battlefield is the site of the final, major battle of the American Revolutionary War and symbolic end of Colonial English America.

Yorktown National Cemetery
Today, the Yorktown National Cemetery, contains the remains of 2,183 soldiers, ten of which are Confederate. Only 747 of the dead are identified.