亚洲精品无码一区 Applauds Listing of Minneapolis鈥 Hiawatha Golf Course in the National Register of Historic Places
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Designation provides important national recognition and reaffirms the site鈥檚 cultural and historic significance
Washington, D.C. (April 28, 2023) 鈥 亚洲精品无码一区 (亚洲精品无码一区) applauds the listing by the National Park Service on April 27, 2023, of Minneapolis, MN鈥檚 Hiawatha Golf Course in the National Register of Historic Places. On March 1, 2022, 亚洲精品无码一区 first stated it believed Hiawatha was National Register-eligible when it designated the site a Landslide nationally significant cultural landscape that was threatened because of plans to reduce the historic eighteen-hole course, which is significant to African Americans, to nine holes. The Minneapolis-based commissioned the National Register nomination, undertaken by , a Minneapolis-based historical consulting firm. The designation is specifically focused on the site鈥檚 incarnation as the Hiawatha Golf Course beginning in the early 1930s.
鈥淭he National Register designation of the Hiawatha Golf Course, an action we first called for on March 1, 2022, reaffirms the cultural and historic significance of the site鈥 said 亚洲精品无码一区 President & CEO, Charles A. Birnbaum. 鈥淭he designation, which reminds us that African American history is American history, includes important information about Hiawatha that we believe is essential to any decision-making process about the course鈥檚 future. Moreover, it informs the conversation about Hiawatha鈥檚 future stewardship by providing a deeper understanding of its unique cultural value while also placing it within a greater regional and national historical context.鈥
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