Historic Sites
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Catoctin Mountain Park Thurmont, Maryland
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt created programs to give people a chance to rebuild their... |
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Chesapeake And Ohio Canal National Historic Park Hagerstown, Maryland
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Originally, the C&O Canal was a lifeline for communities and businesses along the... |
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Clara Barton National Historic Site Glen Echo, Maryland
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The house of the famed Clara Barton served not only as her home, but also as the... |
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Fort Washington Fort Washington, Maryland
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At this 180-year-old fort visitors explore the the outer defense for Washington, DC... |
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Historic London Town And Gardens Edgewater, Maryland
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Within the boundaries of this park was once the late 17th/early 18th-century town of... |
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Jefferson Patterson Park And Museum St. Leonard, Maryland
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Seventy archaelogical sites have discovered 9,000 years of human habitation of this area... |
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Monocacy National Battlefield Frederick, Maryland
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The Visitor Center includes numerous interactive and multimedia exhibits, including... |
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Mount Harmon Plantation Earleville, Maryland
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The main building itself at this 290-acre site is a three-story, five-bay manor house... |
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North Point State Park Edgemere, Maryland
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This waterfront park on the Chesapeake Bay was once the site of the Bay Shore Amusement... |
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Susquehanna Museum Havre de Grace, Maryland
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The Susquehanna Museum is housed in the 1840's Lock Tender's house at the... |
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Recently added:
- American Revolution Center
- 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.
