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National Military Parks
Number of Parks: 9 (as of 2015)
First Park: Gettysburg National Military Park | 1864; came under NPS 1935
Newest Park: Pea Ridge National Military Park | 1963
National Military Parks protect significant conflict sites on American soil, and so most date to the Civil War. The preservation of battlefields, considered hallowed ground, began after Gettysburg by veterans who fought there. In 1890 Congress designated the nation's first military park, Chickamauga and Chattanooga, administered by the War Department. Administration fell to the National Park Service in 1933. |