News Release

Shiloh Wants Your Bottle Caps

Ranger Hat and Bottle Caps

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News Release Date: May 23, 2022 Shiloh, TN – Shiloh National Military Park is seeking donations of bottle caps of any size (plastic or metal) to be used in a special project for the National Park Service’s 106^th birthday on August 25, 2022. We will be collecting them starting in June and running through the end of July.

There will be four locations to drop off the bottle caps: Shiloh Visitor Center, Tennessee River Museum, Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center, and the Corinth Tourism Office. The collection bin at the Corinth Interpretive Center will be available after hours for drop-offs.

The special project will be on display during the NPS Birthday Bash Concert on Saturday, August 27, at Shiloh Battlefield and the weeks following.

On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the “Organic Act” creating the National Park Service, a new federal bureau in the Department of the Interior responsible for protecting the 35 national parks and monuments then managed by the department and those yet to be established.

Today the National Park Service manages 423 individual units (parks) covering more than 85 million acres of land in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and US territories.

For more information on upcoming events at both the Shiloh Battlefield and Corinth Battlefield go to www.nps.gov/shil, find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/shilohnmp, or follow us on Twitter @ /ShilohNPS.