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Navy – Merchant Marine Memorial Washington, District Of Columbia |
Located in Lady Bird Johnson Park on Columbia Island, the Navy-Merchant Marine Memorial |
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Fort Zachary Taylor Historic State Park Key West, Florida |
Named after 12th president Zachary Taylor, the U. S. |
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Wright’s Chance/Queen Anne’s County Historical Society Centreville, Maryland |
Dating back to the 1700s, Wright's Chance is a Colonial period plantation house. |
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The Powder Magazine Charleston, South Carolina |
Construction began on The Powder Magazine in 1712 and was completed by 1713, making it |
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Del Webb Sun Cities Museum Sun City, Arizona |
The Sun Cities Area Historical Society/Del Webb Sun Cities Museum is dedicated to the p |
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Steamship Historical Society of America East Providence, Rhode Island |
THE STEAMSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA was established in 1935 as a means of bring |
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Tryon Palace New Bern, North Carolina |
Tryon Palace is a modern recreation of the original palace, which served as the royal g |
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Hampton-Preston Mansion & Gardens Columbia, South Carolina |
One of Columbia's oldest remaining historic houses, the Hampton-Preston Mansion was hom |
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Old Sturbridge Village Sturbridge, Massachusetts |
Old Sturbridge Village is the largest living history museum in New England, spanning o |
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Lee Chapel And Museum Lexington, Virginia |
Since the days of Robert E. |
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Bishop Hill Bishop Hill, Illinois |
Many consider the Jansonist emigration as the beginning |
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Lincoln Family Church Springfield, Illinois |
The Lincoln family began attending the church in 1850 after the death of three-year-old |
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Fort Matanzas National Monument St. Augustine, Florida |
The Spanish completed Fort Matanzas in 1742 to protect Matanzas Inlet, the "backdoor" t |
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Nasa Wallops Flight Facility Visitors Center Wallops Island, Virginia |
Rocket launches at WFF can be difficult to view due to the small size of some sounding |
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Antietam National Battlefield Sharpsburg, Maryland |
It was at this battlefield that the Civil War saw its bloodiest single day battle. |
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Boston Harbor Islands Boston, Massachusetts |
Many of the Boston Harbor Islands contain buildings and structures related to such uses |
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Fort Abercrombie Abercrombie, North Dakota |
It was also the only post in the area to be besieged by Dakota (Sioux) warriors for mor |
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Fort De Chartres Prairie du Rocher, Illinois |
This site marks the location of the last of three successive forts named “de Chartres” |
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Fort Sumter National Monument Sullivan's Island, South Carolina |
Decades of growing strife between North and South erupted i |
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Old Barracks Museum Fort Dix, New Jersey |
The barracks serves as an educational center for Colonial and American history, and sta |
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Watervliet Arsenal Museum Watervliet, New York |
A small museum features exhibits on the evolution of large artillery and the arsenal’s |
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Sherwood Forest Plantation Charles City, Virginia |
The plantation, first recorded in a 1616 land grant, was originally known as Smith's Hu |
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Northampton Slave Quarters Lake Arbor, Maryland |
Of the large tobacco plantations of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Northampton was |
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Poche Plantation Convent, Louisiana |
The Judge Poche Plantation House is significant in the areas of architecture and local |
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Arkansas Historic Preservation Program Little Rock, Arkansas |
The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program is devoted to getting the citizens of Arkans |
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Levi Shinn Log House Shinnston, West Virginia |
This late-18th-century colonial log cabin evokes the long-gone days of America's Revolu |
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The Hermitage Home Of President Andrew Jackson Nashville, Tennessee |
The Hermitage mansion has been meticulously restored to its 1837 appearance and today l |
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Greenbank Mill Wilmington, Delaware |
The first mill at Greenbank was reportedly called the Swede's Mill dating from 1677. |
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Fort Pulaski National Monument Savannah, Georgia |
The Battle for Fort Pulaski in April 1862 marked a turning |
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Smith's Castle North Kingstown, Rhode Island |
During the 18th century, large plantations dotted the Narragansett shoreline from Wickf |