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(Encyclopedia) Theodore Roosevelt Island: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) George Washington Memorial Parkway: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Memorial Parkway, Wyo.: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

(Encyclopedia) Lookout, Cape, point of a sandy reef (Core Banks), off E N.C., SW of Cape Hatteras. The reef guards the port entrance to Beaufort and Morehead City. A lighthouse on the point was built in 1859 and is ...

(Encyclopedia) Parks, Gordon (Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks), 1912–2006, African-American photographer, filmmaker, writer, and composer, b. Fort Scott, Kans. Parks purchased his first camera in 1938 and be...

(Encyclopedia) Guilford Courthouse, battle of, in the Carolina campaign of the American Revolution, fought Mar. 15, 1781. The site is included in a national military park near Greensboro, N.C. (see National Parks an...

(Encyclopedia) Kitty Hawk or Kittyhawk, part of an offshore sandbar on Cape Hatteras, NE N.C., E of Albemarle Sound. Nearby is Kill Devil Hill, where the Wright brothers experimented successfully (1900–1903) with ...

(Encyclopedia) Gaffney, city (2020 pop. 12,764), seat of Cherokee co., NW S.C., near the N.C. line, in a cotton, grain, and peach region; settled in the early 1800s, i...

(Encyclopedia) Greenbelt, city (2020 pop. 24,921), Prince Georges co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; chartered 1937. Greenbelt was planned a...