Posts Tagged ‘Pennsylvania’

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site America’s Best Idea: National Park Getaway

National Park Service News Release
Contacts:
Frances Delmar, Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site,
Frances_Delmar@nps.gov,
610-582-8773 ext. 233
Elise Cleva, NPS Headquarters, Elise_M_Cleva@nps.gov, 202-208-6843
March 3, 2010
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
America’s Best Idea: National Park Getaway
ELVERSON, Pa. – This week, the National Park Getaways series invites you to visit Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site. From the cast house at Hopewell Village came [...]

National Park Service Parktips – March 2010

National Park Service
Parktips – March 2010
Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service. A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm. Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips. You can view past issues of Parktips. You can also [...]

Parktips – February 2010

National Park Service
Parktips – February 2010
Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service. A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm. Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips. You can view past issues of Parktips. You can also [...]

Parktips – January 2010

National Park Service
Parktips – January 2010
Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service. A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm. Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips. You can view past issues of Parktips. You can also [...]

National Parks Honor America’s Armed Forces Free Admission on Veterans Day

National Park Service news release
Contact: David Barna, 202-208-6843
November 4, 2009
National Parks Honor America’s Armed Forces Free Admission on Veterans Day
WASHINGTON – From the beginnings of our nation to this very day, brave Americans have fought to protect our country and defend the principles on which it was founded.
On Veterans Day, November 11, our country honors [...]

Parktips – November 2009

National Park Service
Parktips – November 2009
Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service. A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm. Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips. You can view past issues of Parktips. You can also [...]

Parktips – October 2009

National Park Service
Parktips – October 2009
Parktips is a monthly compilation of newsworthy items and story ideas from the National Park Service.  A new edition is posted on the first week of each month at http://www.nps.gov/news/index.htm.  Just click on the Story Leads link to access Parktips.  You can view past issues of Parktips.  You can also [...]

Tree that ‘witnessed’ Gettysburg battle comes down

National park officials say a white oak tree that stood during an epic Civil War battle in Pennsylvania will be removed for safety reasons.

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National Park Service Signs Agreements with Owners on Land for Flight 93 Memorial (0)

National Park Service Signs Agreements with Owners on Land for Flight 93 Memorial

 
                                                     Date: August 31, 2009
                                                    Contact: Kendra Barkoff
                                                             (202) 208-6416

 
 National Park Service Signs Agreements with Owners on Land for Flight 93 Memorial

 

 
Washington, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the federal government has reached agreement with all of the landowners for all properties needed for the construction of [...]

Another famous Gettysburg address: 81 Lincoln Square

GETTYSBURG, Pa. — Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address lasted only two minutes, and yet it has been called the “most enduring speech in American history.” Lincoln’s stay in Gettysburg to deliver the speech was brief, too — he was in the south-central Pennsylvania town for less than 24 hours.

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