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Flight 93 National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Flight 93 National Memorial, memorial, visitors complex, and other facilities at the site of the crash of the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 on Sept. 11, 2001, near Shanksville, Pa. The grounds, 2...

Jefferson National Expansion Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Jefferson National Expansion Memorial: see Gateway Arch National Park. ...

Johnstown Flood National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Johnstown Flood National Memorial: see Johnstown (2); National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Mount Rushmore National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Mount Rushmore National Memorial, 1,278 acres (518 hectares), SW S.Dak., in the Black Hills; est. 1925, dedicated 1927. There, carved on the face of the mountain and visible for 60 mi (97 km), are the...

Memorial University of Newfoundland

(Encyclopedia)Memorial University of Newfoundland, at St. John's, N.L., Canada; provincially supported; coeducational; founded 1925 as Memorial Univ. College. It achieved university status in 1949. The school has f...

Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

World War II Memorial

(Encyclopedia)World War II Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Wright Brothers National Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Wright Brothers National Memorial: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial

(Encyclopedia)Schoenbrunn Village State Memorial shānˈbrən, –bro͝on [key], E Ohio, S of New Philadelphia; site of the first town in Ohio, est. 1772 by Moravian missionary David Zeisberger and his Native Ameri...