Historic Sites
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Winter Park Historical Museum Winter Park, Florida
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The museum opened to the public on March 11, 1995 in the north end of the historic Winter... |
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Witte Museum San Antonio, Texas
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Located in Brackenridge Park , on the banks of the San Antonio River , the Witte offers... |
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Wolf Creek Heritage Museum Lipscomb, Texas
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The Wolf Creek Heritage museum tells the story of its people and the evolution of the... |
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Woodburn Dover, Delaware
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Historians credit Woodburn's historical importance as much to the home's architecture as... |
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Woodstock Historical Society Woodstock, Connecticut
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World Of Coca Cola Museum Atlanta, Georgia
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With 60,000 square feet for you to explore, the World of Coca-Cola features more than 1,... |
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World's Fair Park Knoxville, Tennessee
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This site of the 1982 World's Fair is landscaped with waterfalls and other natural scenes... |
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Wright’s Chance/Queen Anne’s County Historical Society Centreville, Maryland
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Dating back to the 1700s, Wright's Chance is a Colonial period plantation house. Records... |
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Wrigley Field Chicago, Illinois
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Opened in 1914, Wrigley Field is the second oldest Major League Baseball stadium in use,... |
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Wyck Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Today the wonderful colonial house with its noteworthy 1824 alterations by William... |
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Wyoming State Museum Cheyenne, Wyoming
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The museum begin with the natural history of the region. Developed in cooperation with... |
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Ximenez-Fatio House Museum St. Augustine, Florida
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Welcome to the Ximenez-Fatio House Museum, one of St. Augustine's most authentic historic... |
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Yamhill County Historical Society And Museum Lafayette, Oregon
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Founded in 1957, the Yamhill County Historical Society is a not-for-profit educational... |
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Yawkey House Museum Wausau, Wisconsin
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The house was built in 1900 - 1901 in the Classical Revival style for Cyrus and Alice... |
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York County Heritage Trust York, Pennsylvania
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A collection of eight historical sites, the York County Heritage Trust offers visitors a... |
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Yuma Territorial Prison Yuma, Arizona
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Their crimes ranged from murder to polygamy, with grand larceny being the most common. A... |
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Zachary Tolbert House Cashiers, North Carolina
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The Zacharys were among the first white settlers of Cashiers Valley, arriving in 1832 to... |
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Zwaanendael Museum Lewes, Delaware
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The Zwaanendael Museum was built in 1931 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the... |
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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.
