The National Park Service is adding seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network.
The network includes locations that provide education, interpretation and research related to U.S. history during the years 1861 - 1900. The program is administered by Reconstruction Era National Historical Park.
“We are very excited to work with these sites which are being added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network.” said Park Superintendent Laura Waller. “They represent a wide variety of the types of institutions engaged in preserving the story of Reconstruction around the country.”
The John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act, signed into law on March 12, 2019, outlined the creation of the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. The system now includes more than 100 sites and programs that are affiliated with the Reconstruction Era.
The latest sites added to the network include:
- The International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. The IAAM interprets the African American journey from Africa through the diaspora, and its galleries feature prominently figures and places associated with Reconstruction in the region.
- Tolson’s Chapel, a historic African American church and cemetery in Sharpsburg, Maryland, that was home to a school between 1866 to 1899.
- Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida. The historically Black university traces its origins to the Cookman Institute, which was founded in Jacksonville in 1872.
- The Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy, an interpretive museum and education center being developed in the Lancaster, Pennsylvania, home and law office of Congressman Thaddeus Stevens.
- The Oklahoma Indian Territory Museum of Black Creek Freedmen History, which preserves and interprets the unique history and cultural experiences of Black Creeks in the Indian territories during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
- The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, an NPS site located in Calabasas, California, that recently launched a program to interpret the story of the Ballard Family. John Ballard was born enslaved in Kentucky and during Reconstruction he and his family became some of the first Black homesteaders in the Santa Monica Mountains.
- Whitney Plantation, a historical sugarcane, indigo, and rice plantation in Wallace, Louisiana, that operated from 1752-1975.
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