Historic Sites
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Abbot Spalding House Museum Nashua, New Hampshire
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The Federal Revival style Abbot-Spalding House was the home to a succession of prominent... |
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Benjamin Rowe House Gilford, New Hampshire
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About 1838, Gilford farmer Benjamin Rowe decided to try his hand at making bricks. In... |
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John Paul Jones House Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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The John Paul Jones House was built in 1758 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to serve as the... |
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Moffatt Ladd House & Garden Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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The Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden (1763) is a National Historic Landmark open to the... |
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Nashua Historical Society And Speare Museum Nashua, New Hampshire
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The museum was named in honor of Sceva Speare's wife, Florence Hyde Speare. The museum... |
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Robert Frost Farm Derry, New Hampshire
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The Robert Frost Farm was home to Robert Frost and his family from 1900-1911. Frost, one... |
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Saint Gaudens National Historic Site Cornish, New Hampshire
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Over 100 of his artworks can be seen in the galleries, from heroic public monuments to... |
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The Franklin Pierce Homestead Hillsborough, New Hampshire
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The Pierce Homestead was built in 1804 by Benjamin Pierce the year his son, Franklin, was... |
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Wentworth Coolidge Mansion Historic Site Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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The Mansion reflects five distinct periods of architecture. The extraordinary skill of... |
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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.
