page_title: George Washington Carver National Monument
hierarchical_section_title: George Washington Carver National Monument
caption_attribution_description: English: The Boy Carver statue along the one-mile, self-guiding trail loop.
context_page_description: George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Newton County, Missouri. The national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the first national monument dedicated to a black American and first to a non-president.
  The site preserves of the boyhood home of George Washington Carver, as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and the Carver cemetery. His boyhood home consists of rolling hills, woodlands, and prairies. The 240-acre park has a ​³⁄₄-mile nature trail, film, museum, and an interactive exhibit area for students.
  The park is two miles west of Diamond along Missouri Route V and approximately ten miles southeast of Joplin.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
context_section_description: George Washington Carver National Monument is a unit of the National Park Service in Newton County, Missouri. The national monument was founded on July 14, 1943, by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who dedicated $30,000 to the monument. It was the first national monument dedicated to a black American and first to a non-president.
  The site preserves of the boyhood home of George Washington Carver, as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and the Carver cemetery. His boyhood home consists of rolling hills, woodlands, and prairies. The 240-acre (97 ha) park has a ​³⁄₄-mile (1.2 km) nature trail, film, museum, and an interactive exhibit area for students.
  The park is two miles west of Diamond along Missouri Route V and approximately ten miles southeast of Joplin.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
caption: A statue of Carver as a child stands along a one-mile trail loop.
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