Definition of a National Monument (Encyclopedia Britannica):
"In the US, any of numerous areas reserved by Act of Congress or Presidential Proclamation for the protection of objects or places of historic, prehistoric, or scientific interest. They include natural physical features, remains of Indian cultures, and places of historic importance."
A Shrine in the Black Hills
"A monument's dimensions should be determined by the importance to civilization of the events commemorated...Let us place there, carved high, as close to heaven as we can, the words of our leaders, their faces, to show posterity what manner of men they were. Then breathe a prayer that these records will endure until the wind and the rain alone shall wear them away."
- Gutzon Borglum
National Park Service, Parks by Name (alphabetical listing)
Area Parks Network, includes many of the national monuments
US NATIONAL MONUMENT INDEX -- Links (National Park Service)
National Monument Drawings by Students, 1999-2000
Maps of the National Monuments
US National Monument Address Index
ADDITIONAL Links (Secondary):
Park Search -- Outdoors Online
Online Highways -- Internet Guide to Travel & Recreation