NATIONAL MONUMENTS

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STATE NAME POSTCARD
 
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah - * Navajo Parks & Recreation - Four Corners National Monument
 
Alaska Admiralty Island National Monument  
Alaska Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve  
Alaska Cape Krusenstern National Monument  
Alaska Misty Fjords National Monument  
Alaska Old Kasaan National Monument

October 25, 1916 to June 26, 1955

Transfered To The U.S. Forest Service

 
Alaska Sitka National Monument,  
 
Alabama Russell Cave National Monument  
 
Arizona - - * Agua Fria National Monument  
Arizona Canyon De Chelly National Monument  
Arizona - * Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Arizona Chiricahua National Monument
Arizona Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument  
Arizona Hohokam Pima National Monument  
Arizona Ironwood Forest National Monument  
Arizona - * Montezuma Castle National Monument
Arizona Navajo National Monument  
Arizona Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Arizona Papago Saguaro National Monument

January 31, 1914 to April 7, 1930

Transfered To the State of Arizona

 
Arizona Pipe Spring National Monument  
Arizona - * Saguaro National Monument

March 1,1933 to October 14, 1994

Now Saguaro National Park

Arizona Sonoran Desert National Monument  
Arizona Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument  
Arizona Tonto National Monument
Arizona Tuzigoot National Monument  
Arizona Vermilion Cliffs National Monument  
Arizona- * Walnut Canyon National Monument
Arizona Wupatki National Monument
 
California Cabrillo National Monument  
California California Coastal National Monument  
California Carrizo Plain National Monument  
California Death Valley National Monument - 1933/1994 See Death Valley National Park
California Devils Postpile National Monument
California Giant Sequoia National Monument  
California Joshua Tree National Monument - 1936 to 1994  
California Lava Beds National Monument  
California Muir Woods National Monument  
California Pinnacles National Monument  
California Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument  
 
Colorado Canyons of the Ancients National Monument  
Colorado Colorado National Monument  
Colorado Dinosaur National Monument - Also see Utah
Colorado Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument  
Colorado Great Sand Dunes National Monument

1932 to 2004

Now Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve

 
Colorado Holy Cross National Monument

 May 11, 1929 to August 3, 1950

Returned to the U.S. Forest Service

 
Colorado- * Hovenweep National Monument - See Utah  
Colorado Wheeler National Monument

December 7, 1908 to August 3, 1950

Returned to the U.S. Forest Service

 
Colorado Yucca House National Monument  
 
Florida Castillo de San Marcos National Monument     1942 to Present - Formerly Fort Marion National Monument
Florida Fort Jefferson National Monument -  1935/1992 (now Dry Tortugas National Park)  
Florida Fort Marion National Monument - 1924/1942             (now Castillo de San Marcos)
Florida Fort Matanzas National Monument  
 
Georgia Fort Frederica National Monument
Georgia Fort Pulaski National Monument  
Georgia Ocmulgee National Monument  
 
Hawaii Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Monument  
 
Idaho Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve
Idaho Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument  
Idaho Minidoka Internment National Monument  
 
Iowa Effigy Mounds National Monument  
 
Louisiana Poverty Point National Monument  
 
Maine Sieur de Monts National Monument                 (now Acadia National Park)  
 
Minnesota Grand Portage National Monumen  
Minnesota Pipestone National Monument  
 
Mississippi Ackia Battleground National Monument  Established October 25, 1938           Disestablished  August 10, 1961

Added to the Natchez Trace Parkway

 
 
Missouri - * George Washington Carver National Monument  
 
Montana Custer National Monument

Now Known As:

Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

 
Montana Lewis and Clark Cavern National Monument

May 11, 1908 to August 24,1937

Transferred to The State Of Montana

 
Montana Pompeys Pillar National Monument  
Montana Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument  
 
Nebraska Agate Fossil Beds National Monument  
Nebraska Homestead National Monument of America
Nebraska Scotts Bluff National Monument
 
New Jersey Ellis Island National Monument  
 
New Mexico Aztec Ruins National Monument  
New Mexico Bandelier National Monument  
New Mexico Capulin Mountain National Monument (now Capulin Volcano National Monumnet),  
New Mexico Capulin Volcano National Monument  
New Mexico - * Carlsbad Caverns National Monument

October 25, 1923 to May 14, 1930

Now Carlsbad Caverns National Park

 
New Mexico Chaco Canyon National Monument
New Mexico - * El Malpais National Monument
New Mexico - * El Morro National Monument
New Mexico Fort Union National Monument  
New Mexico Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument  
New Mexico Gran Quivira  1 Nov 1909 - 28 Oct 1988          (now part of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument)  
New Mexico Petroglyph National Monument  
New Mexico - * Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument  November 2, 1981

Formerly Abo State Monument from 1938 to November 2, 1981

New Mexico White Sands National Monument
New Mexico Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument  
 
Nevada Lehman Caves National Monument (now Great Basin NP)  
 
New York African Burial Ground National Monument  
New York Castle Clinton National Monument  
New York Ellis Island National Monument  
New York Father Millet Cross National Monument

August 10, 1933 to September 7,1949

Transferred To The State Of New York

 
New York Fort Stanwix National Monument  
New York Governors Island National Monument  
New York Statue of Liberty National Monument
 
North Dakota Verendrye National Monument

June 29, 1917 to July 30, 1956

Transferred to the State of North Dakota

 
 
Ohio Mound City Group National Monument

Now known as the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park

 
 
Oregon Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument  
Oregon John Day Fossil Beds National Monument  
Oregon Newberry National Volcanic Monument -  
Oregon Oregon Caves National Monument  
 
South Carolina Castle Pinckney National Monument

October 15, 1924 to August 10, 1933

Transferred to State of South Carolina - March 29, 1956

 
South Carolina Fort Moultrie National Monument  
South Carolina Fort Sumter National Monument  
 
South Dakota - * Badlands National Monument - 1929 to 1978

Now The Badlands National Park

South Dakota Fossil Cycad National Monument

October 21, 1922 to August 1, 1956

Transferred to the Bureau of Land Management

 
South Dakota Jewel Cave National Monument  
 
Tennessee Meriwether Lewis National Monument  
 
Texas Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument  
 
Utah Arches National Monument 1929/1971 

(now Arches National Park)

Utah Bryce Canyon National Monument  -  1924/1928

(now Bryce Canyon National Park)

 
Utah Cedar Breaks National Monument
Utah Dinosaur National Monument - Also see Colorado  
Utah Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument  
Utah - * Hovenweep National Monument - See Colorado  
Utah Mukuntuweap National Monument  - 1909 -  1919

(now Zion National Park)

 
Utah - * Natural Bridges National Monument  
Utah Rainbow Bridge National Monument  
Utah Timpanogos Cave National Monument  
 
Virginia Booker T Washington National Monument  
Virginia Colonial National Monument - 1930/1936  
Virginia George Washingtons Birthplace National Monument  
 
Washington Hanford Reach National Monument  
Washington Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
 
West Virginia Harpers Ferry National Monument

June 30, 1944 to May 29, 1963

Now "Harper's Ferry National Historic Park"

 
Wyoming Devils Tower National Monument

The Nation's First National Monument

Wyoming Fossil Butte National Monument  
Wyoming Shoshone Cavern National Monument

September 21,1909 to May 17, 1954

Transferred to Cody, Wyoming

 

 

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