Historic Sites
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Ah Tah Thi Ki Museum Big Cypress Indian Reservation, Florida
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The Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum on Big Cyrpess Reservation explores the history of the Seminole... |
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Albany Mounds Albany, Illinois
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The Albany Mounds date from the Middle Woodland (Hopewell) period (200 BCE-CE 300), older... |
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Alutiiq Museum Kodiak, Alaska
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The Alutiiq Museum, located on the first floor of the Alutiiq Cultural Center, traces the... |
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Anasazi Historical Site & State Museum Boulder, Utah
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Visit the museum and partially excavated prehistoric Indian village at Anasazi State Park... |
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Aztec Ruins National Monument Aztec, New Mexico
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Aztec Ruins provides visitors an intimate opportunity to explore the ancient Puebloan... |
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Bandelier Los Alamos, New Mexico
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Bandelier has a long human history and links to the modern Pueblos. Early Spanish... |
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Brevard Museum Of History And Natural Science Cocoa, Florida
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Colorful dioramas depicting the area from the days of woolly mammoths and saber tooth... |
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Canyon De Chelly Chinle, Arizona
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Canyon de Chelly also sustains a living community of Navajo people, who are connected to... |
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Carlsbad Caverns National Park Carlsbad, New Mexico
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The park’s cultural resources represent a long and varied continuum of human use... |
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Casa Grande Ruins Coolidge, Arizona
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Casa Grande Ruins is the first archeological site to be preserved by the federal... |
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Casa Malpais Archaeological Park Springerville, Arizona
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The Mogollan people occupied Casa Malpais, which means "House of the Badlands,... |
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Charlotte County Historical Center Port Charlotte, Florida
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Charlotte County Historical Center, located at Bayshore Live Oak Park on beautiful... |
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Chimney Rock Archaeological Area Chimney Rock, Colorado
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Designated an Archaeological Area and National Historic Site in 1970, Chimney Rock lies... |
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Chrysler Museum Of Art Norfolk, Virginia
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The Chrysler Museum of Art combines one of America's great fine arts museums and two... |
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Coronado State Monument Bernalillo, New Mexico
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The pueblo of Kuaua was occupied from 1300 AD and abandoned near the end of the 16th... |
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Crystal River Archaeological State Park Crystal River, Florida
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A focal point of pre-Columbian Native American ceremony and commerce, the Crystal River... |
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Dakota Dinosaur Museum Dickinson, North Dakota
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The museum contains 11 full-scale dinosaurs displayed in a Triassic-Cretaceous time... |
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Dinosaur Discovery Museum Kenosha, Wisconsin
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The main gallery of the Museum shows the link between birds and meat-eating dinosaurs (... |
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Double Ditch Bismarck, North Dakota
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According to Mandan oral history, Double Ditch was one of seven to nine villages... |
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Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Florissant, Colorado
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The fossils, rocks, hills, and valleys that make up Florissant Fossil Beds National... |
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Halifax Historical Museum Daytona Beach, Florida
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Housed in the former 1910 Merchant's Bank building, the museum exhibits the history of... |
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Heritage Museum Of Northwest Florida Valparaiso, Florida
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The Heritage Museum is located on the original main street of Valparaiso, Florida. The... |
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Heritage Park And Cultural Center Fort Walton Beach, Florida
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Together these three sites form a cultural center which presents the history of the Fort... |
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Historic Spanish Point Osprey, Florida
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Sitting upon 30 acres, this museum features a number of regional history exhibits.... |
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Historical Museum Of Southern Florida Miami, Florida
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An expansive museum examining the history of southern Florida from the arrival of the... |
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Historical Society Of Palm Beach County West Palm Beach, Florida
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Housed in the historic 1916 Courthouse, the Historical Society of Palm Beach County... |
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Hovenweep National Monument Cortez, Colorado
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Multi-storied towers perched on canyon rims and balanced on boulders lead visitors to... |
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Hutchinson County Historical Museum Borger, Texas
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The Hutchinson County Museum is a regional history museum in the Texas Panhandle. Our... |
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Ilanka Cultural Center Cordova, Alaska
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Opened in 2004, the Ilanka Cultural Center celebrates the history and culture of Native... |
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Indian Temple Mound Museum Fort Walton Beach, Florida
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Run by the City of Fort Walton Beach, the Indian Temple Mound Museum houses a pre-... |
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Jacksonville Museum Of Science & History Jacksonville, Florida
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The museum displays 12,000 years of history in the Currents of Time exhibit or explore... |
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Kenosha Public Museum Kenosha, Wisconsin
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Established in 1933, the Museum's collections have grown to over 70,000, including almost... |
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Keweenaw National Historic Park Calumet, Michigan
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From 7,000 years ago to the 1900s people mined Keweenaw copper. Native peoples made... |
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Kincaid Mounds Unionville, Illinois
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The Kincaid site likely served as a trade link between native settlements in the... |
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Lake Jackson Mounds Archaeological State Park Tallahassee, Florida
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The Native Americans who resided on the banks of Lake Jackson between 1200 and 1500 A.D.... |
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Letchworth Love Mounds State Park Monticello, Florida
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The 46 foot tall Letchworth-Love Mound, built between 100 and 900 A.D., is the tallest... |
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Lost City Museum Overton, Nevada
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In the early 1930s, Anasazi Indian sites were being threatened by the waters of Lake Mead... |
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Manatee County Emerson Point Mound Palmetto, Florida
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The largest remaining Indian mound in the Tampa Bay Region, Manatee County Emerson Point... |
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Matheson Museum Gainesville, Florida
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The museum is flanked by three other sites: The Matheson House dates from 1867 and... |
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Medicine Lodge Douglas, Wyoming
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Within a 12-mile radius of Medicine Lodge, five distinct vegetation zones can be found.... |
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Micanopy Historical Society Museum Micanopy, Florida
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An abundance of exhibits reside in the Micanopy Historical Society Museum, which is... |
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Montezuma's Castle Camp Verde, Arizona
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This 20 room high-rise apartment, nestled into a towering limestone cliff, tells a 1,000... |
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National Museum Of Natural History Washington, District Of Columbia
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Opened in 1910, the green-domed museum on the National Mall was among the first... |
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New Madrid Historical Museum New Madrid, Missouri
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The museum displays artifacts from pre-Colombian culture, The Civil War, and other... |
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Pensacola Historical Museum Pensacola, Florida
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The museum educates locals and tourists on the history of Pensacola. The first floor of... |
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Pipe Spring National Monument Fredonia, Arizona
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In the 1860s Mormon pioneers from St. George, Utah, led by James M. Whitmore brought... |
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Richmond County Museum Warsaw, Virginia
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The exhibits at the county museum exhibit highlight the Rappahannock Tribe, an early... |
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Saint Croix Island International Historic Site Bar Harbor, Maine
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The winter of 1604-1605 on Saint Croix Island was a cruel one for Pierre Dugua’s... |
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Tampa Bay History Center Tampa, Florida
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December 2008 will not only bring a comfortably cool climate to central west Florida; it... |
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Tarpon Springs Area Historical Society Tarpon Springs, Florida
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This historical society houses an abundant collection of research resources. Tarpon... |
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Toolesboro Indian Mounds Wapello, Iowa
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The five-acre site includes several large surviving mounds, an education center and a... |
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Virginia Museum Of Natural History Martinsville, Virginia
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Visitors can experience the natural diversity of Virginia at this science museum, which... |
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Washakie Museum Worland, Wyoming
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The museum features an exhibit on the Colby Site, the earliest mammoth kill site found in... |
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Winter Garden Heritage Museum Winter Garden, Florida
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Native American artifacts attest to the extensive civilization that existed here before... |
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Yupiit Piciryarait Museum Bethel, Alaska
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Located at the Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center in Bethel, Alaska, the museum... |
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Why do we need a national nonprofit membership society for American history?
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“Save America’s Treasures” has been totally eliminated—the largest Federal program supporting preservation of such treasures as the original Star Spangled Banner and George Washington’s tent.
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65% of Americans don’t know what happened at the Constitutional Convention, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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The “Teaching American History” grants—the largest Federal program supporting history education—have been completely eliminated.
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Visits to the Top 20 Civil War battlefields have dropped in half from 1970 to 2009 according to official National Park Service statistics.
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40% of Americans can’t identify whom we fought in World War II, according to a recent survey by Newsweek.
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A quarter of Americans believe Congress shares power over U.S. foreign policy with the United Nations, according to a recent Annenberg survey.
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“There is little that is more important for an American citizen to know than the history and traditions of his country,” John F. Kennedy wrote in American Heritage.
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The “We the People Program,” which touched some 30 million students and 90,000 teachers over 25 years, has been completely eliminated.
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Two-thirds of Americans could not correctly name Yorktown as the last major military action of the American Revolution, according to a recent national Gallup survey.
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The National Heritage Areas and Scenic Byways program, the only major Federal program encouraging visits to historic places, has been completely eliminated in Congressional committee.
