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:

1. Presidents Day is celebrated on the third Monday in February, thanks to the 1968 Uniform Monday Holiday Act
2. It was established in 1885 in honor of President George Washington’s birthday
3. Washington’s birthday was actually on February 22, 1732 (this would be his 282^nd birthday!)
4. Washington’s birthplace is a national monument and is located in Colonial Beach, VA
5. It is still officially called Washington’s Birthday by the federal government
6. The government debated renaming the holiday to Presidents Day to include President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, but the proposal failed in committees
7. Lincoln’s birthday was actually on February 12, 1809 (this would be his 205^th birthday!)
8. Lincoln’s birthplace is a national historical park and is located in Hodgenville, Kentucky
9. President Ulysses S. Grant established Yellowstone as the first national park
10. President Theodore Roosevelt has the most national parks named in his honor
11. Lincoln is a close runner-up for that title
12. Roosevelt’s birthplace is a national historic site and is located in New York City, NY
13. Adams National Historical Park was the birthplace of two presidents: John Adams and John Quincy Adams
14. The most recent presidential birthplace added to the National Park System belonged to William Jefferson Clinton
15. 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