Historic Sites
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Alamo San Antonio, Texas
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Although the Alamo fell in the early morning hours of March 6, 1836, the death of the... |
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Chestnut Square Historic Village McKinney, Texas
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Chestnut Square Historic Village is a collection of six historic homes, a replica of a... |
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Dallas Heritage Village Dallas, Texas
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The museum is composed of 38 historic structure and boasts a working Civil War era farm,... |
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Farmers Branch Historical Park Farmers Branch, Texas
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The Gilbert House, built between 1856-1857, is the oldest rock structure in Dallas County... |
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Fort Worth Stockyards Museum Fort Worth, Texas
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Between 1866 and 1890 more than four million head of cattle were trailed through Fort... |
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French Legation Museum Austin, Texas
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The French Legation Museum as it exists today represents a conscientious effort to return... |
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Hamilton County Historical Museum Hamilton, Texas
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The building that houses the museum served as the Hamilton County Jail from 1935 to 1990... |
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Heritage Farmstead Museum Plano, Texas
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The Heritage Farmstead Museum offers a four acre complex with row crops, gardens, a... |
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Heritage Society At Sam Houston Park Houston, Texas
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Nestled in 19 acres of beautiful green parkland in the heart of downtown Houston, The... |
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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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Institute Of Texan Cultures San Antonio, Texas
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UTSA's Institute of Texan Cultures maintains 50,000 square feet of exhibit space. The... |
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Mission Tejas State Park Grapeland, Texas
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The Spanish mission was established in 1690. Also in the park is the restored Rice Family... |
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Museum Of Regional History Texarkana, Texas
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The Museum of Regional History tells the fascinating story of Texarkana, the city in two... |
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National Ranching Heritage Center Lubbock, Texas
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Forty-five authentic, furnished ranch buildings and structures have been relocated to the... |
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Old Red Museum Dallas, Texas
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From the establishment of settlers' sites in the 1840s, through fifteen decades of growth... |
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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park San Antonio, Texas
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Within 13 years, five were located along the San Antonio River. The missions’... |
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San Fernando Cathedral San Antonio, Texas
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By the mid-1860s the population of San Antonio had outgrown the original structure. The... |
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Socorro Mission El Paso, Texas
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The original Franciscan mission, Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del... |
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Spanish Governor's Palace San Antonio, Texas
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The Spanish Governor's Palace is an excellent example of a large Spanish colonial... |
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Texas And Pacific Railway Museum Marshall, Texas
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The museum is housed in the recently restored Texas and Pacific Railway Depot (built in... |
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West Bay Common School Museum League City, Texas
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When you visit the 1898 Schoolhouse Museum, the schoolmarm brings history to life with an... |
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West Of The Pecos Museum Pecos, Texas
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The West of the Pecos Museum contains three floors, over 50 rooms of exhibits, artifacts... |
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Recently added:
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- National Museum of Civil War Medicine
- National Museum of the U.S. Navy
- Manassas National Battlefield
- Maryland State House
In association with the
American Association for State and Local History
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.
