Assateague Island National Seashore
7206 National Seashore Lane
Berlin, MD 21811-2540

Phone: 410-641-1441

This 37-mile barrier island, with sandy beaches, migratory waterfowl, and wild ponies, includes the 9,021-acre Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Booker T. Washington National Monument
12130 B. T.Washington Hwy.
Hardy, VA 24101-9688

Phone: 540-721-2094

On this 19th-century plantation Booker T. Washington was born a slave on April 5, 1856. When he returned to visit in 1908, he was a noted educator and orator. He founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama in 1881.

Colonial National Historical Park
P.O. Box 210
Yorktown, VA 23690-0210

Phone: 757-898-3400

This park encompasses most of Jamestown Island, site of the first permanent English settlement; Yorktown, scene of the culminating battle of the American Revolution in 1781; a 23-mile parkway; and Cape Henry Memorial, which marks the approximate site of the first landing of Jamestown's colonists in 1607. Yorktown National Cemetery, containing Civil War gravesites--2,183 interments, 1,434 unidentified--adjoins the park; grave space is not available.

Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania County Battlefields Memorial National Military Park
120 Chatham Lane
Fredericksburg, VA 22405-2508

Phone: 540-373-6122 or 540-786-2880

This park encompasses four major Civil War battlefields (Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania Court House) and four historic buildings associated with them (Chatham, Salem Church, Ellwood, and the house where Stonewall Jackson died).