Colonel Charles Young House - Wilberforce OH
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N 39° 42.433 W 083° 53.411
17S E 252224 N 4399256
Colonel Charles Young was a career US Army officer who was born into slavery in 1864
Waymark Code: WMP0FW
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 06/04/2015
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Charles Young was the third African American graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. national park superintendent, the first African American military attaché, and the highest ranking black officer in the United States Army until his death in 1922.
On March 25, 2013 under the Antiquities Act, President Barack Obama designated the house as the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, a unit of the National Park Service. To be operated as a house museum with exhibits as well about the Buffalo Soldiers, it is not yet open for public visitation.
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