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George Washington Carver National Monument is in Newton County, Missouri, about 18 km (11 mi) southeast of Joplin and 97 km (60 mi) southwest of Springfield.
- Authorized: July 14, 1943.
- Size: 85 hectares (210 acres).
- Firsts: the first birthplace site designated for someone other than a president, and the first NPS unit established to honor the achievements of an African American.
- What it preserves: the birthplace and childhood home of George Washington Carver — agronomist, educator and humanitarian — on land that was part of the 97-hectare (240-acre) farm of Moses Carver, a German American settler who bought George's mother when she was 13.
Carver's childhood on the farm fed his spirituality, his love of nature and his thirst for knowledge — traits behind his later successes.
The Boy Carver Statue on the Carver Trail. NPS.
The 1.2 km (0.75 mi) Carver Trail passes the birthplace site, the Boy Carver Statue, a bust of Carver, the restored 1881 Moses Carver House, and the cemetery.
Geologic setting
The monument lies on the Springfield Plateau, part of the Ozark Plateaus province of southwestern Missouri: flat to rolling country over Paleozoic sedimentary rocks of Ordovician, Mississippian and Pennsylvanian age.
| Rock | Where | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Burlington and Keokuk limestones (Mississippian, undivided) | all of the monument's bedrock | dense, fossil-rich, light gray to white limestone with a little chert |
| Warsaw and Salem formations, St. Louis Limestone (younger Mississippian) | around the monument | — |
| Pennsylvanian rocks | isolated exposures nearby | — |
The monument's geologic map poster, from the Geologic Resources Inventory. NPS.
Inventories
- Geologic Resources Inventory (GRI): digital geologic maps and reports for more than 270 natural resource parks. This park's scoping summary, GIS map, report and poster are listed on the NPS DataStore.
- Soil Resources Inventory: completed for the monument and on the DataStore.
The Moses Carver House, built in 1881. NPS.
This page is part of the NPS Geodiversity Atlas, which describes each park's rocks, minerals, sediments, fossils, landforms, soils and the processes that shape them.
More: George Washington Carver National Monument · geologic time · regional geology · Missouri Geological Survey
Sources
Based on "NPS Geodiversity Atlas—George Washington Carver National Monument, Missouri," National Park Service, citing National Park Service (2016), Middendorf (2003) and Thompson (1986); a work of the United States government in the public domain. A picture of the GRI report's cover is left out.
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