OK, I promise I’ll stop posting these lists for a while.
In honor of Women’s History Month, below are listed official park sites that focus on telling important women’s history well, and it includes suffragettes, abolitionists, business women, laborers, and political leaders. Links go to my ad-free blog, where I talk about the parks I visit in my Tesla 3LR. Thanks.
In honor of Women’s History Month, below are listed official park sites that focus on telling important women’s history well, and it includes suffragettes, abolitionists, business women, laborers, and political leaders. Links go to my ad-free blog, where I talk about the parks I visit in my Tesla 3LR. Thanks.
- Adams (MA) has much more on Abigail than I mentioned
- Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality (DC)
- Campobello (Canada) has Tea with Eleanor, highly recommended
- César E. Chávez (CA) with much on Dolores Huerta
- Clara Barton (DC) saved countless lives, but couldn’t vote
- Eleanor Roosevelt (NY)
- Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley (IL, MS)
- First Ladies (OH) exhibits rotate, so visit again
- Harriet Tubman (NY) should be on the $20
- Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad (MD)
- Klondike Gold Rush (WA) describes many women like Nellie Cashman
- Knife River Indian Villages (ND) with Sacagawea
- Lowell (MA)
- Lower East Side Tenement Museum (NY)
- Maggie L Walker (VA)
- Mary McCleod Bethune Council House (DC)
- Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home (MS) in progress, but features Myrlie Evers
- Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front (CA) be sure to read about real Rosies outside too
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial (DC) includes a Women’s Memorial
- Women’s Rights (NY)