The George Washington Carver National Monument Opened in 1943 in Diamond, Missouri.

The George Washington Carver National Monument is the first national park in the United States that is dedicated to an African American. It was built on the 240 acres in Diamond, Missouri where George Washington Carver (? - 1943) spent his childhood. It commemorates Carver's distinguished life as an educator (at Tuskegee University) and scientist in the fields of agriculture and botany, in which he made many discoveries that improved farming techniques.

Most notably, Carver invented hundreds of products, like soap, cosmetics, paint, and medicine using peanuts.

  Only two presidents, Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) and George Washington (1732 - 1799) had been bestowed this honor when the monument was built in the summer of 1943. It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) who signed the legislation to honor "The Plant Doctor". 

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"It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success."-George Washington Carver