
February 21, 2022
President’s Day 2022 – Interesting Facts About This National Holiday
Happy Presidents Day! In honor of today’s holiday, here are some interesting facts about how it came to be:
- Presidents Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February, thanks to the 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act
- It was established in 1885 in honor of President George Washington’s birthday
- Washington’s birthday was actually on February 22, 1732 (this would be his 282nd birthday!)
- Washington’s birthplace is a national monument and is located in Colonial Beach, VA
- It is still officially called Washington’s Birthday by the federal government
- The government debated renaming the holiday to Presidents Day to include President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, but the proposal failed in committees
- Lincoln’s birthday was actually on February 12, 1809 (this would be his 205th birthday!)
- Lincoln’s birthplace is a national historical park and is located in Hodgenville, Kentucky
- President Ulysses S. Grant established Yellowstone as the first national park
- President Theodore Roosevelt has the most national parks named in his honor
- Lincoln is a close runner-up for that title
- Roosevelt’s birthplace is a national historic site and is located in New York City, NY
- Adams National Historical Park was the birthplace of two presidents: John Adams and John Quincy Adams
- The most recent presidential birthplace added to the National Park System belonged to William Jefferson Clinton
- There are 35 parks named after American Presidents, and one park that celebrates four of them (but it’s named after a New York attorney)
From: https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/15-fun-facts-about-presidents-day-and-our-national-parks