Historic Sites
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Battle Of Lexington State Historic Site Lexington, Missouri
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The house, which changed hands three times, provided the downstairs hallway where... |
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Boone County Historical Society Columbia, Missouri
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The Boone County Historical Society was formally organized in 1963 and opened its first... |
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Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site Sedalia, Missouri
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Sitting atop a 120-foot bluff, Bothwell Lodge State Historic Site can't be missed by... |
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Confederate Memorial State Historic Site Higginsville, Missouri
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The Civil War may have ended in 1865, but vivid memories of the "Lost Cause"... |
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Dillard Mill State Historic Site Davisville, Missouri
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Dillard Mill sits along Huzzah Creek and was the second mill built at that site. The... |
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Felix Valle House State Historic Site Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
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Settled by French-Canadian habitants in the late 1740s, the village of Ste. Genevieve has... |
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Iron County Historical Society & Museum Arcadia, Missouri
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On June 26, 1974, a meeting sponsored by the Arcadia Valley Woman´s Study Club was... |
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Randolph County Historical Society Moberly, Missouri
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Famous Randolph Countians include General Omar Bradley, five-star general from World War... |
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Shoal Creek Living History Museum Kansas City, Missouri
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Covering more than 80 acres of beautiful rolling hills in Kansas City North's Hodge Park... |
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Union Station Kansas City Kansas City, Missouri
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Built in 1914, Union Station encompasses 850,000 square feet and originally featured 900... |
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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.
