Historic Sites
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Buffalo And Erie County Naval And Military Park Buffalo, New York
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Besides viewing exhibits and ships, creative use of the park has spanned an incredibly... |
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Castle Clinton National Monument New York, New York
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First intended to keep out a British invasion in 1812, the Castle has transformed over... |
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Ellis Island National Monument New York, New York
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Opened on January 1, 1892, Ellis Island became the nation's premier federal immigration... |
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Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor Waterford, New York
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The corridor stretches 524 miles across the full expanse of upstate New York. It... |
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Fort Lee Historic Park Fort Lee, New York
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In the southern portion of the Historic Park, winding paths lead past a reconstructed... |
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Patriots Park and the André Captors' Monument Tarrytown, New York
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Exactly on the border between Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow and next door to the Warner... |
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Rockefeller State Park Preserve & Rockwood Hall Tarrytown, New York
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The most notable feature of the Preserve is the system of carriage roads built by John D... |
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Saratoga Spa State Park Saratoga Springs, New York
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Saratoga Spa State Park, distinguished by its classical architecture and listed as a... |
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Thousand Islands Alexandria Bay, New York
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It was French explorers who named the region. Vacationers discovered the islands in the... |
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Van Cortlandt House Museum Bronx, New York
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Merchant Jacobus Van Cortlandt began purchasing land in the Bronx in 1694. Gradually, he... |
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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.
