The National Park Service has added seven locations around the U.S. to a nexus of museums and historical sites that help tell the story of the United States during and after the Civil War.
The Reconstruction Era, dating between 1861 and 1900, “is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood periods in American History and includes stories of freedom, education and self-determination,” the service said in a news release.
“We are very excited to work with these sites which are being added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network,” Park Superintendent Laura Waller said in a statement. “They represent a wide variety of the types of institutions engaged in preserving the story of Reconstruction around the country.”
The places being added to the park service’s Reconstruction Era National Historic Network include Tolson’s Chapel, an African American church and cemetery in Maryland that was used as a school between 1866 and 1899.
