Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers

U.S. National Park Service

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument

The Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, a National Monument of the United States, commemorates the life of Charles Young (1864-1922), an escaped slave who rose to become a Buffalo Soldier in the United States Army and its first African-American colonel.

National Park Foundation

National Park Foundation

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CHARLES YOUNG BUFFALO SOLDIERS NATIONAL MONUMENT - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TripAdvisor

In 1884, Second Lieutenant Charles Young became just the third African American to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Young distinguished himself as a soldier in the Ninth U.S. Cavalry, one of the black troops known as the Buffalo Soldiers that served, among other roles, as some of the nation’s first park rangers. Despite the rigid segregation of the U.S. military at the time, Young rose through the ranks to become a colonel; served as a professor of military science, French, chemistry, geometry and geology at Wilberforce University in Ohio; and went on to become the first African-American acting national park superintendent at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park in 1903. The national monument preserves Young’s home in Xenia, Ohio, and helps tell not only his story, but the story of life as an African-American soldier in the 19th century.

At the turn of the last century, a great American hero set an enduring standard of excellence that forged the basis of the modern National Park System.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers Monument

The first African American Colonel in the United States Army, Young lead the Buffalo Soldiers, the United States’ first black cavalry.

Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument, Wilberforce, Ohio. 2,501 likes · 1 talking about this · 39 were here. Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers...

On our busy adventure day to Dayton last week, we stopped by the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Wilberforce on our way home.  This nat

Quinn Evans Architects