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George Washington Carver National Monument: Diamond Grove
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George Washington Carver was honored by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in July 14, 1943 dedicating $30,000 for a national monument to be dedicated to his accomplishments. The area of Carver's childhood near Diamond Grove, Missouri has been preserved as a park, with a bust of the agricultural researcher, instructor, and chemical investigator. This park was the first designated national monument to an African American in the United States. George Washington Carver was bestowed an honorary doctorate from Simpson College in 1928. He was made a member of the Royal Society of Arts in London, England. He received the Spingarn Medal in 1923, which is given every year by the National Association for the Advancement of colored People.
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George Washington Carver was born in 1864 near Diamond Grove, Missouri on the farm of Moses Carver. He was born into difficult and changing times near the end of the Civil War. The infant George and his mother were kidnapped by Confederate night-raiders and possibly sent away to Arkansas. Moses Carver found and reclaimed George after the war but his mother had disappeared forever. The identity of Carver's father remains unknown, although he believed his father was a slave from a neighboring farm. Moses and Susan Carver reared George and his brother as their own children.
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George Washington Carver was born in 1860 (apx) in a little town south of Joplin Missouri called Diamond. He was born to a slave woman on the farm of Amos Carver it was never known for sure who his father was but he was believed to be slave on a near by farm. During the war between the States a group of raiders hit the farm, they hung Moses Carver by his thumbs from an oak tree to make him tell them where he had his money hid when the become convinced he had no money, they took George and his Mother, George was later found in Arkansas but his mother was never heard from again. Moses Carver and his wife raised George and his brother as their own children, George being a sickly child he was not required to work in the fields with Moses, but was allowed to work with Mrs. Carver in the house and gardens where developed a love of plants, as well as cooking and needle work, as there were no schools in that area that would take black children they were taught to read and write at home, George loved the outdoors and the surrounding area he had secrets gardens in the woods where he studied plants and became quite good at raising them. He become know to the neighbors as the Plant Doctor as he help them find ways to cure ailing plants. when he was about 12 he moved to Neosha to attend a Negro school he never again returned to the Carvers but would always remember the love and guidance, and influence they had on his life.
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Science enthusiasts Branson should be aware on their Branson vacation that in roughly one and a half hours, driving from Branson, they can reach the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond, Missouri. While not quite a stone’s throw away, the birthplace dedicated to the “Plant Doctor” will make for a nice day trip. Take a breath of fresh, Missouri country-air walking The Carver Nature Trail. Notable stops along the way include replicas of the 12×12 cabin in which the scientist was born and the Moses Carver House. (The original structures were demolished by a tornado.) A pre-civil-war cemetery and, obviously, the wildlife that surrounded and inspired Carver himself in his youth... adorn the state-preserved southwestern Missouri farm. In The Carver Science Discovery Center, lab-technicians are available to discuss and demonstrate the life and work of this great American scholar.
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George Washington Carver never allowed anyone to give him money. He always insisted on earning his way. He was a small man that appeared often in a disheveled suit. His needs were small and many checks he received remained uncashed. When he died on January 5, 1943, he was buried near Booker T. Washington on the grounds of the Tuskegee Institute. The American people are reminded of his importance at the George Washington Carver National Monument in Diamond Grove, Missouri, his birthplace.
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Dr. George Washington Carver was a Missourian and African American inventor, educator and agricultural innovator who revolutionized the agricultural sciences, while defeating the oppression of racism and slavery. Dr. Carver’s legacy as an innovator in agricultural science is commemorated in Missouri through the George Washington Carver Monument and Discovery Center. The monument and center are located near his birthplace in Diamond Grove, Missouri which is now an historic park. The Discovery Center specifically serves as an educational facility to spur interest in nutrition, soil science and other aspects of agriculture for Missouri’s youth.
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