# @nationalparkservice on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2024-02-20T16:38:36.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Park Service (@nationalparkservice) — https://gondola.cc/nationalparkservice

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Did George Washington Carver invent peanut butter? 🥜

Not quite. George Washington Carver was a renowned agricultural scientist who developed over 300 different uses for peanuts, but he wasn’t the inventor of peanut butter. However, his innovations increased the legume’s popularity and helped make peanuts a staple in the American diet. His 1916 pamphlet “How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption, offered, well 105 ways to use the peanut. That’s nuts! 

Located in southwestern Missouri, George Washington Carver National Monument (@gwcarvernps) is the birthplace and childhood home of the famed scientist, educator, and humanitarian. Inspired by his birthplace and natural surroundings, Carver studied and contributed great accomplishments to the field of agriculture. Later, as director of the agricultural department at Booker T. Washington’s Tuskegee Institute, Carver worked to develop sustainable farming practices. He was deeply interested in the regenerative properties of soil and the potential of alternative crops such as peanuts to produce other products.

George Washington Carver National Monument, the first national monument dedicated to an African American and first to a non-president, preserves the boyhood home of Carver, as well as the 1881 Moses Carver house and the Carver cemetery.

Image 1: Studio portrait of George Washington Carver in 1906 by Frances Benjamin Johnston. Photograph Courtesy of Library of Congress

Image 2: Carver’s bulletin and a bottle of shelled peanuts from the collection at Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site

Image 3: Robert Amendola sculpted this tribute to young George Washington Carver in 1961 and entitled it “Boy Carver Statue.” The statue depicts George tenderly cradling a plant in his left hand, illustrating his love and respect for nature. It shows why, as a young child, he was called “The Plant Doctor.”

#BlackHistoryMonth #missouri #GeorgeWashingtonCarver #agriculture #history

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