Date

Unit

State

Legislation

President Clinton

10/31/1994

Death Valley National Park, incorporated Death Valley NM

CA

P.L. 103-433

10/31/1994

Joshua Tree National Park, incorporated Joshua Tree NM

CA

P.L. 103-433

10/31/1994 new unit

Mojave National Preserve

CA

P.L. 103-433

10/31/1994 new unit   

New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park

LA

P.L. 103-433

11/02/1994 new unit   

Cane River Creole National Historical Park

LA

P.L. 103-449

11/12/1996 new unit   

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area

MA

P.L. 104-33

11/12/1996 new unit   

New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park

MA

P.L. 104-533

11/12/1996 new unit   

Nicodemus National Historic Site

KS

P.L. 104-333

11/12/1996 new unit   

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

KS

P.L. 104-333

11/12/1996 new unit  

Washita Battlefield National Historic Site

OK

P.L. 104-333

10/09/1997 new unit    

Oklahoma City National Memorial

OK

P.L. 105-58

11/06/1998 new unit   

Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site

AR

P.L. 105-356

11/06/1998 new unit   

Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site

AL

P.L. 105-355

10/21/1999

Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP, redesignated from a NM

CO

P.L.

11/29/1999 new unit   

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

SD

P.L. 106-115

10/11/2000 new unit

First Ladies National Historic Site

OH

P.L. 106-291

10/11/2000

Cuyahoga Valley National Park, redesignated from a NRA

OH

P.L.

10/24/2000 new unit

Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front NHP

CA

P.L. 106-352

11/22/2000 new unit                                   P.L. 106-530

Great Sand Dunes National Preserve

CO

P.L. 106-530

01/17/2001 new unit  

Minidoka Internment National Monument

ID

Proclamation 7395

01/17/2001 new unit  

Virgin Islands Coral Reef National Monument

VI

Proclamation 7399

01/20/2001 new unit                                   Proclamation #7402

Governors Island National Monument

NY

Proclamation 7402

President Bush

08/21/2002 new unit  

Craters of the Moon National Preserve      

ID

P.L. 107-213

09/24/2002 new unit

Flight 93 National Memorial

PA

P.L. 107-226

12/19/2002 new unit  

Cedar Creek & Belle Grove National Historical Park      

VA

P.L. 107-373  

11/10/2003             

Congaree National Park  incorporated Congaree Swamp NM

SC

P.L. 108-108

01/23/2004                                         

Oklahoma City National Memorial  deauthorized as a unit

OK

P.L. 108-199

05/29/2004 new unit 

National World War II Memorial    

DC

P.L. 107- 11

09/24/2004

Great Sand Dunes National Park, redesignated from a NM

CO

P.L. 106-530

10/30/2004     

Lewis & Clark Nat. Hist. Park  incorporates Fort Clatsop NM

OR

P.L. 108-387

02/27/2006  new unit

Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site

DC

P.L. 108-192

02/27/2006  new unit

African Burial Ground National Monument

NY

Proclamation

04/28/2007                               

Sand Creek Massacre NHS,

CO

P.L. 106-464

P.L. 106-465

New Units Pending

11/05/2001

Adams Memorial, awaiting completion

DC

P.L. 107- 62

01/10/2002

Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial, awaiting completion

DC

P.L. 107-117

02/06/2002

Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home NHS awaiting land acquisition

IL

P.L. 107-137

11/11/2003

Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, awaiting completion

DC

P.L. 108-125

Updated by:  David Barna, NPS Public Affairs, 202-208-6843

Further updated by Jeremy Sullivan