Historic Sites
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20th Century Technology Museum Wharton, Texas
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Exhibits featuring technological developments such as electronic media, home appliances,... |
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Air Force Armament Museum Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
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At this museum, visitors can experience everything from aviation warfare armament from... |
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Air Mobility Command Museum Dover, Delaware
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Exhibits in this museum range in topic from the Berlin Airlift to the Korean War to air... |
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Airborne & Special Operations Museum Fayetteville, North Carolina
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The Airborne & Special Operations Museum will provide a unique educational experience... |
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Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum Anchorage,
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Visitors are able to inspect and observe a number of aircraft, including one of the four... |
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Alaskaland Pioneer Air Museum Fairbanks,
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Alaska's pioneer history coincided with advances and experiments in flight, and this... |
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Aviation Museum Of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky
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This 12,000-square-foot museum, located in a hangar on Lexington's Blue Grass Airport,... |
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Castle Air Museum Atwater, California
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The aircraft displayed at the Castle Air Museum, planes like the B-17 Flying Fortress,... |
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Cavanaugh Flight Museum Addison, Texas
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Walk past wood and fabric aircraft from the World War I era. Pass by significant aircraft... |
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Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Dayton, Ohio
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Dayton Aviation consists of four units that tell the stories of Wilbur Wright, Orville... |
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Fargo Air Museum Fargo, North Dakota
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One of the main attractions of the museum is a full-scale replica of a Wright Brothers... |
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Fleischmann Atmospherium Planetarium Reno, Nevada
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Located at the northwestern edge of the University of Nevada-Reno campus, the Fleischmann... |
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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Vancouver, Washington
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Fort Vancouver NHS and the McLoughlin House unit offer a variety of opportunities for... |
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Grissom Air Museum Peru, Indiana
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The museum has 25 legendary aircraft on outdoor display, spanning from WWII to the Gulf... |
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Hill Aerospace Museum Hill Air Force Base, Utah
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Hill Aerospace Museum is located on approximately 30 acres on the northwest corner of... |
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Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Philip, South Dakota
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Here you will find remnants of the Cold War, including an underground launch control... |
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Nasa Wallops Flight Facility Visitors Center Wallops Island, Virginia
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Rocket launches at WFF can be difficult to view due to the small size of some sounding... |
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National Air And Space Museum Washington, District Of Columbia
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This museum, which opened in 1976, maintains the largest collection of historic air and... |
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National Aviation Heritage Area Dayton, Ohio
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The new National Aviation Heritage Area (NAHA) joins 26 other heritage areas in existence... |
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National Naval Aviation Museum Pensacola, Florida
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Some of the most technologically advanced airplanes to ever fly off an aircraft carrier... |
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Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Red Hook, New York
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This museum presents one of the largest collections of early aeroplanes in the world,... |
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Patuxent River Naval Air Museum Lexington Park, Maryland
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The museum has an extensive collection of outdoor display aircraft, including an F-14A... |
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Red Baron Museum Marshall, Minnesota
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The Stearman biplane has a rich history. In the 1920s, the planes were used primarily to... |
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San Diego Air And Space Museum San Diego, California
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The San Diego Air & Space Museum educates visitors on aviation and space flight... |
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Silent Wings Museum Lubbock, Texas
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Visitors can transport themselves into the era of swing music and patriotism and... |
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Southern Museum Of Flight Birmingham, Alabama
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The museum's exhibit halls include the following: Early Aviation Exhibit: The Wright... |
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Space Needle Seattle, Washington
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The symbol of Seattle was built for the 1962 World's Fair and features an observation... |
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Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Tuskegee, Alabama
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In the 1940's Tuskegee, Alabama became home to a "military experiment" to train... |
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U.s. Army Aviation Museum Fort Rucker, Alabama
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The United States Army Aviation Museum, located in South-central Alabama, maintains a... |
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U.s. Space & Rocket Center Huntsville, Alabama
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The facilities include Spacedome Theater, Rocket Park, the Education Training Center,... |
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Ufo Museum & Research Center Roswell, New Mexico
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The mission of the museum is the education of the general public to all aspects of the... |
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Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum Titusville, Florida
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Started by a group of 17 individuals in 1977, the Valiant Air Command is dedicated to... |
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Virginia Aviation Museum Richmond, Virginia
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The Virginia Aviation Museum features the spectacular SR-71 Blackbird; 36 historic,... |
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Warhawk Air Museum Nampa, Idaho
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The Warhawk Air Museum encourages an educational experience about the technology, culture... |
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Wright Brothers National Memorial Manteo, North Carolina
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On display in the visitor center are a full-scale reproduction of the 1902 glider, a full... |
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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.
