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noun(national monument)a place of historic, scenic, or scientific interest set aside for preservation usually by presidential proclamation
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geographical name(national monument)site in lower Manhattan, New York City, where free and enslaved Africans were buried in the late 17th and 18th centuries
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geographical name(national monument)reservation along the Niobrara River in western Nebraska
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geographical name(national monument)archaeological site in northern Texas northeast of Amarillo
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geographical name(national monument)active volcano in southwestern Alaska on the Alaska Peninsula in Aniakchak National Monument
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geographical name(national monument)site of a prehistoric pueblo in northwestern New Mexico northeast of Farmington
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geographical name(national monument)reservation in north central New Mexico west of Santa Fe containing cliff-dweller ruins
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geographical name(national monument)birthplace and childhood home of American educator Booker T. Washington in west central Virginia southeast of Roanoke
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geographical name(national monument)area of coral reefs surrounding Saint Croix in the Virgin Islands of the U.S.
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geographical name(national monument)site in southwestern California on San Diego Bay where the first European set foot on the west coast of what would become the U.S.