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Upcoming Events
May - June 2009 - Gazette (3.07MB, .pdf file) Newsletter highlighting park programs and other events in and around Independence National Historical Park
Did You Know?
Christoph Jacob Munk and his family emigrated from Germany to Ohio in 1832. They traveled along the National Road. He wrote about rainstorms, a 4 foot rattlesnake, the mountains and sleeping at isolated inns. He also mentions that “it is very troublesome to travel with [a] wife and children.”