National Historic Landmark - Benjamin Banneker Boundary Stone

This boundary stone commemorates the accomplishments of Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806), farmer, mathematician, inventor, astronomer, writer, surveyor, scientist, and humanitarian. Perhaps the most famous Black man in Colonial America, Banneker helped survey the District of Columbia.

National Historic Landmark - Ball's Bluff Battlefield & National Cemetery

In October 1861, to quiet his critics, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan ordered Union troops stationed along the Potomac between Edwards Ferry and Harper's Ferry to make "a slight demonstration" and draw out the Confederate force based in Leesburg. The ...

National Historic Landmark - Bacon's Castle

This house, built in the 1660's, was used by colonials under Bacon as a stronghold in their 1676-1677 rebellion against British exploitation.

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National Historic Landmark - Aquia Church

Completed in 1757, this is one of the finest and least-altered examples of Virginia's rural Georgian churches. Constructed of brick with quoins and door frames of locally quarried Aquia Creek sandstone, the Greek Cross plan and architectural embellishments are derived ...

National Historic Landmark - Alexandria Historic District

From the mid-18th century until the Civil War, Alexandria was the principal seaport and the commercial center of northern Virginia. The District contains significant examples of Colonial and Federal urban architecture. Interspersed among rows of modest houses are more imposing ...

National Historic Landmark - Yakima Park Stockade Group

Constructed between 1930 and 1943, this complex is a classic example of an exaggerated rustic style. The complex, consisting of three buildings and a vertical log "stockade" fence enclosing a utility yard, was built from a design with roots in ...

National Historic Landmark - W. T. PRESTON (Snagboat)

W. T. PRESTON (1939) is one of two surviving U.S. Army Corps of Engineers snagboats and bucket dredges. Snagboats were part of a nationwide, decades-long commitment by the Army Corps to river and harbor improvement in the United States. W. ...

National Historic Landmark - Virginia V (Steamer)

Virginia V is one of two surviving members of the American "mosquito fleet"--the large, unlicensed steamers that worked the inland waters of United States. She was built in 1922 for the West Pass Transportation Company, whose steamers carried passengers, produce, ...

National Historic Landmark - Puget Sound Naval Shipyard

Puget Sound Naval Shipyard was the principal repair establishment for the U.S. Navy's battle-damaged battleships and aircraft carriers, as well as smaller warships, of the Pacific Fleet during World War II. Five of the eight battleships bombed at Pearl Harbor ...

National Historic Landmark - Port Townsend

Once a customs station on Puget Sound, the town flourished in the 1880s, but collapsed in the 1889 land speculation debacle. The district contains many fine late 19th-century commercial and residential structures.

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