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- Acadia National Park
Discover the great fire of 1947. - Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Learn about floods on the canal since 1829. - Clara Barton National Historic Site
Founder of the disaster-relief organization, the Red Cross. - Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park
Examining aviation accidents and the great Dayton flood of 1913. - Fort Raleigh National Historic Site
The fate of the "Lost Colony" remains a mystery. - Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail
At the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,000 to 17,000 years ago, a series of cataclysmic floods occurred. - Johnstown Flood National Memorial
The 1889 flood that killed over 2,200 souls. - Kalaupapa National Historical Park
A human-caused disaster -- when Hansen's disease (leprosy) was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands, King Kamehameha V banished all afflicted to the isolated Kalaupapa peninsula. - Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Examine the possibilities of nuclear war. - New River Gorge National River
Coal mine disasters that changed lives. - Oklahoma City National Memorial
A memorial to April 19, 1995 explosion. - Petersburg National Battlefield
The 'Crater' - Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial
A tragic explosion.
Last updated: September 8, 2018