Historic Sites
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Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park Flagler Beach, Florida
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Visitors can tour the sugar mill ruins and learn about the plantation's history at the... |
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Dudley Farm Historic State Park Newberry, Florida
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The plantation complex consists of eighteen buildings, including the house in which the... |
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Dunlawton Sugar Mill Botanical Gardens Port Orange, Florida
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Interpretive signs recount the history of this famous 16th century sugar mill and of the... |
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Fort Dallas And The William Wagner House Miami, Florida
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Located in Miami's Lummus Park, Fort Dallas and the William Wagner House offer unique... |
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Gamble Plantation Historic State Park Ellenton, Florida
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The Gamble Plantation's history stretches from Major Robert Gamble, who presided over a... |
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Goodwood Museum And Gardens Tallahassee, Florida
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This estate began in the 1830's as a cotton and corn plantation that ultimately... |
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Kingsley Plantation Jacksonville, Florida
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The Kingsley Plantation, administered by the National Park Service, is located on Fort... |
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Torreya State Park Bristol, Florida
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This expansive and verdant state park features an opulent plantation including Civil War-... |
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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
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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.
