George Washington Carver believed in the usefulness of all things. His active mind found hundreds of new uses for items others had thrown away.
He went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and "started (his) laboratory with bottles, . . . — — Map (db m311960) HM
In the 1860s and 1870s Moses Carver grew hundreds of bushels of oats, corn, hay, and Irish potatoes in these fields. This farm where young George played and worked also produced fruit, wool, beeswax, honey, molasses, and livestock. When he left, . . . — — Map (db m311951) HM
I recall when just a boy just starting up to do art work that I longed to paint flowers so that they would speak to the beholder, and inspire and enthuse them to do great things…
George Washington Carver, Letter to J.J. Lewis, . . . — — Map (db m311952) HM
Immediately after George Washington Carver’s death in 1943, the United States Congress recognized the importance of keeping his memory alive by establishing Carver’s birthplace as a national monument.
George Washington Carver first made an . . . — — Map (db m42009) HM
Immediately after George Washington Carver’s death in 1943, the United States Congress recognized the importance of keeping his memory alive by establishing Carver’s birthplace as a national monument. You are visiting the first national park . . . — — Map (db m311906) HM
The cabin site offers an impression of the slave cabin in which Carver was born. Its mysteries reflect the confused circumstances of Carver's early life.
The log cabin in which George Washington Carver was born was not built with the . . . — — Map (db m42011) HM
The log cabin footprint here offers an impression of the one in which Carver was born, its mysteries reflect the confused circumstances of Carver's early life.
Moses Carver originally built the single room log cabin for himself and his . . . — — Map (db m311895) HM
Right Road
…how can I be sure that I’m on the right road?… “In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.” Now you must learn to look to Him for direction and then follow, and you will never go wrong.
George . . . — — Map (db m42892) HM
I was just a mere boy when converted, hardly ten years old. There isn't much of a story to it. God just came into my heart one afternoon while I was alone in the loft of our big barn while I was shelling corn…one of our neighbors, about my . . . — — Map (db m311944) HM
In the late 1860s and early 1870s when George rambled in these woods, he never saw this pond. Below the still waters you see trapped here today is the gravel-and-rock-filled bed of a spring-fed creek.
Here young George often frolicked with . . . — — Map (db m311947) HM
As an impressionable young boy, George Washington Carver looked on as friends and neighbors were interred in the Moses Carver Family Cemetery. The cemetery may contain as many as 40 graves dating as far back as 1835, but only 21 of the graves have . . . — — Map (db m42033) HM
The farm on which George Washington Carver grew up was owned by Moses and Susan Carver. While George’s path in life took him far from here, he considered this farm his first home.
In the 1830s, Moses and Susan Carver moved from Sangamon . . . — — Map (db m42007) HM
The farm on which George Washington Carver grew up was owned by Moses and Susan Carver. While George’s path in life took him far from here, he considered this farm his first home.
In the late 1830s, Moses and Susan Carver moved from Sangamon . . . — — Map (db m311927) HM
George, like most children, was supposed to stay in after dark. He later recalled, "...my brother and I would sometimes steal out to the persimmon tree. And when we went into the house there was Mrs. Carver waiting for us beside a jar of willow . . . — — Map (db m42032) HM
Day after day I spent in the woods alone in order to collect my floral beautis and put them in my little garden I had hidden in brush…
George Washington Carver, letter to Mrs. W.A. Liston, 1908
Somewhere in these . . . — — Map (db m311941) HM
Just inside these walls you can find the markers for the couple who homesteaded this farm from the 1830s and raised young George - Moses and Susan Carver. They rest here among neighbors from the Brown, Davis, Dunn, Ellis, McGinnis, and Williams . . . — — Map (db m311956) HM
This spring was the closest drinking water for the Carver household in the 1860s. Accoring to George, he was too frail for field work. His guardian, Susan Carver, gave him many household chores including drawing water from this spring. As a typical . . . — — Map (db m42030) HM
I am up each morning at or about four, and I go outdoors and look. I look at everything of nature, trees, birds, weeds, grass, insects, flowers. This is my way of communing - early in the morning. -
George Washington . . . — — Map (db m311931) HM
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked with God.
George Washington Carver, to Glenn Clark, 1935
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George Washington Carver on one of his daily . . . — — Map (db m311955) HM
Sometime near the end of the Civil War, a slave was born here in a cabin. His mother, Mary, named the baby - her second son - George. Moses Carver had purchased Mary as an enslaved person back in 1855, when she was about 13 years old.
Years of . . . — — Map (db m42028) HM
In a world aflame with war and every species of hatred, no name can evoke greater goodwill than that of Dr. George Washington Carver of Tuskegee…a man whose whole life has been dedicated to…all mankind…Dr. Carver has lived to make men free, . . . — — Map (db m311933) HM
William Williams married Moses Carver's niece, Sarah Jane Carver, in 1853 and they built their home beside this spring. Their two children, Daniel and Martha, played with George Washington Carver as they grew up on the farm.
During the 1930's . . . — — Map (db m42031) HM
