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              GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER NATIONAL
MONUMENT
Massie, Missouri Resources Commission
The George Washington Carver National Monument, which is
located in Newton County about three miles southwest of Diamond,
is rapidly becoming one of the area's major tourist attractions. Many
improvements are being made, and the chief addition this year is the
visitors' center, a structure which houses the museum, serves as
starting point for the tours, and is built inside and out to resemble a
barn, in keeping with the rural atmosphere of the park.
The visitor who takes the circle trail for a complete tour of the
monument finds many mementoes of Carver's early life—the tree
which local legend says was the one from which his master, Moses
Carver, was hanged by his thumbs because he refused to tell raiders
the hiding place of his gold, the new statue of Carver as a boy, the
spring which supplied water for the Carver farm, an old plantation
house, and the Carver burial plot. Plants along the trail are marked
and identified by small signs.
The visitors' center, which is pictured above, includes a diorama
which portrays the cabin as it looked in the 1860's when Carver was
a boy; a museum exhibit with furniture from the home of Aunt
Mariah Watkins, the Neosho Negro with whom Carver lived when
he attended elementary school; the large family Bible; other articles
associated with Carver's life; and photographs and graphic displays
designed to illustrate Carver's career and to tell of his impact on
the world.
This is reputed to be the first national monument to any American for services to agriculture, the first to any American educator, the
first to any American scientist, and the first to any American Negro.
The (ieorge Washington Carver National Monument is being
developed under Mission 66, a ten-year program for improving and
staffing areas managed by the National Park Service so as to permit
their widest use, greatest enjoyment, and understanding and to
assure maximum preservation of the resources which give the areas
their distinction.

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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 55 Issue 1, October 1960
Volume	55
Issue	1
Month	October
Year	1960
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008
ISSN	0026-6581

Title	Cover
Volume	55
Issue	1
Month	October
Year	1960
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER NATIONAL MONUMENT Massie, Missouri Resources Commission The George Washington Carver National Monument, which is located in Newton County about three miles southwest of Diamond, is rapidly becoming one of the area's major tourist attractions. Many improvements are being made, and the chief addition this year is the visitors' center, a structure which houses the museum, serves as starting point for the tours, and is built inside and out to resemble a barn, in keeping with the rural atmosphere of the park. The visitor who takes the circle trail for a complete tour of the monument finds many mementoes of Carver's early life—the tree which local legend says was the one from which his master, Moses Carver, was hanged by his thumbs because he refused to tell raiders the hiding place of his gold, the new statue of Carver as a boy, the spring which supplied water for the Carver farm, an old plantation house, and the Carver burial plot. Plants along the trail are marked and identified by small signs. The visitors' center, which is pictured above, includes a diorama which portrays the cabin as it looked in the 1860's when Carver was a boy; a museum exhibit with furniture from the home of Aunt Mariah Watkins, the Neosho Negro with whom Carver lived when he attended elementary school; the large family Bible; other articles associated with Carver's life; and photographs and graphic displays designed to illustrate Carver's career and to tell of his impact on the world. This is reputed to be the first national monument to any American for services to agriculture, the first to any American educator, the first to any American scientist, and the first to any American Negro. The (ieorge Washington Carver National Monument is being developed under Mission 66, a ten-year program for improving and staffing areas managed by the National Park Service so as to permit their widest use, greatest enjoyment, and understanding and to assure maximum preservation of the resources which give the areas their distinction.

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