Location Wilberforce, Ohio NRHP Reference # 74001506 Area 2 ha Phone +1 937-503-5614 | Built 1864 Designated NHL May 30, 1974 Opened 1864 Added to NRHP 30 March 1974 | |
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Website Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument Address 1120 US-42, Xenia, OH 45385, USA Similar Cesar E Chavez National, William Howard Taft Natio, Dayton Aviation Heritage, David Berger National, Blue Rock State Park Profiles | ||
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The Colonel Charles Young house is a National Historic Landmark in Wilberforce, Ohio. A career U.S. Army officer, Charles Young was born into slavery in Kentucky in 1864. He 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. He also taught military science at Wilberforce University.
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. Operated as a house museum with exhibits as well about the Buffalo Soldiers, it is currently open for public visitation.