Leutze Park - Marine Corps Historical Center

Leutze Park

This park is named for Rear Admiral Eugene H. Leutze, who was Commandant of the Yard from 1905 to 1910. The park is used as a parade ground and for formal affairs as the Ceremonial Quarterdeck of the ...

Quantico Marine Athletes of the Sixties

This monument is donated by the Quantico Marine Athletes of the Sixties in honor of their teammates who gave their lives in Vietnam

2LT Tyrone S. Pannell Nov. 30, 1965

2Lt John B. Capel May 12, 1966

2LT Gene S. ...

6th Marine Division Medal of Honor Recipients

Okinawa

Semper Fidelis

Dedicated

to the

6th Marine Division

Medal of Honor

Recipients

Corporal Richard E. Bush, U.S.M.C.

Major Henry A. Courtney, Jr., U.S.M.C.

Corporal James L. Day, U.S.M.C.

P.F.C. Harold Gonsalves, U.S.M.C.

H.A.I. Fred E. Lester, U.S.N.

Private Robert M. McTureous, Jr., U.S.M.C.

WORLD WAR II

Courtesy ...

Once a Marine .... Always a Marine

Patrick F. Taylor

1937 – 2004

“I used to think that it was the Marine Corps training that made former Marines such an extraordinary group. I have now come to realize that the Marine Corps attracts an extraordinary type of individual to ...

Molly Marine

On November 10, 1943, the city of new Orleans dedicated the first United States monument of a woman in service uniform: “Molly Marine.” A local recruiter commissioned the statue to help recruit women during World War II. Renowned artist Enrique ...

Acquisition of Quantico Marine Reservation

This marks the site

where in May 1917

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Assistant Secretary of the Navy

and

Major General Commandant George Barnett

cut the first tree symbolizing official

acquisition of the Marine Reservation

Quantico, Virginia.

Marker is at the intersection of Barnett Avenue and Labelle Street, on the right ...

Long Beach Marine Stadium

Created in 1932 for the rowing events of the Xth Olympiad, the Stadium was the first manmade rowing course in the United States. Its width allowed four teams to race abreast, eliminating additional heats and allowing oarsmen to enter the ...

Hopkins Marine Station

Hopkins scientists study the biology of the bay

The building across the cove is Hopkins Marine Station. It was the first marine laboratory on the West Coast, founded in 1892. Part of Stanford University, its facilities are dedicated to the study ...

Molly Marine

On November 10, 1943, the city of new Orleans dedicated the first United States monument of a woman in service uniform: “Molly Marine.” A local recruiter commissioned the statue to help recruit women during World War II. Renowned artist Enrique ...

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

(VIMS)

Using science to…

Increase oyster and clam production

Model Bay dynamics

Identify aquatic disease

Reduce billfish by-catch

Trace contaminants

Understand food web production

Increase blue crab populations

Explore bottom dwellers

Restore seagrass

Strengthen natural stocks

Investigate coastal erosion

Understand nutrient cycles

The Nation’s leading research facility focusing on coastal and estuarine science

Since 1940, ...