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Monterey site with 12,000 years of history may gain national historic park recognition
U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta has introduced legislation directing the Department of the Interior to study whether Monterey’s Lower Presidio Historic Park should become a National Historic Park under the National Park Service. The proposed American Sovereignty and Monterey Historic Military Site Study Act would require the Interior secretary to complete a special resource study within […] The post Monterey site with 12,000 years of history may gain national historic park recognition appeared first on Local News Matters .

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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Monterey site with 12,000 years of history may gain national historic park recognition, U.S. Rep. Jimmy Panetta has introduced legislation directing the Department of the Interior to study whether Monterey’s Lower Presidio Historic Park should become a National Historic Park under the National Park Service. The proposed American Sovereignty and Monterey Historic Military Site Study Act would require the Interior secretary to complete a special resource study within […] The post Monterey site with 12,000 years of history may gain national historic park recognition appeared first on Local News Matters .
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