National Historic Landmark - Fort Nisqually Granary

The fort was the first permanent Anglo-American settlement on Puget Sound, serving as a communications and supply center for other trading posts. The fort's one-story granary, built in 1843 of log construction, and the Factor's House are the only surviving ...

National Historic Landmark - Tacoma (Fireboat No. 1)

FIREBOAT NO. 1, built (1929) and operated only on Puget Sound, is representative of most fireboats built prior to the Second World War throughout the U.S. One of ten fireboats greater than 50 years of age left in the U.S. ...

National Historic Landmark - Fireboat Duwamish

An excellent example of a typical fireboat found in any major American port city through much of the 20th century. While earlier tugboats modified for fireboat use and employed as auxiliary fireboats may exist, DUWAMISH (1909) is the second oldest ...

National Historic Landmark - Chinook Point

Capt. Robert Grey's May 1792 discovery of the Columbia River at Chinook Point gave the United States a strong claim to the Pacific Northwest; a claim which was long disputed by Great Britain.

National Historic Landmark - B Reactor

B Reactor is the world's first production-scale nuclear reactor, built in 1943-1944, as part of the Manhattan Project, the United States' wartime program to build a nuclear weapon. It produced plutonium used in the world's first nuclear detonation, the Trinity ...

National Historic Landmark - Arthur Foss (tug boat)

Built in 1889, she is the only known wooden-hulled 19th-century tugboat left afloat and in operating condition in the United States. FOSS towed lumber and grain-laden square-rigged ships across the treacherous Columbia River, and hence, was a key participant in ...

National Historic Landmark-San Juan Island National Historical Park

These sites are associated with the mid-19th century conflict about the water boundary between Vancouver Island, British Columbia, and the U.S. Oregon Territory. Events came to a head in 1859, when an American settler shot a British pig. Words were ...

National Historic Landmark - Adventuress (Schooner Yacht)

A schooner yacht and pilot boat, she is a significant example of the "fisherman profile" design of the yachts of Bowdoin B. Crowninshield, a noted early 20th-century American naval architect whose work was influential in the development of American yachts ...

National Historic Landmark - Wheeling Suspension Bridge

Oldest major long-span suspension bridge in the world, with a span of more than 1,000 feet. This bridge is possibly the Nation's most significant extant ante-bellum engineering structure. Its construction established American leadership in the building of suspension bridges.

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National Historic Landmark - Alexander Wade House

Wade, a teacher and superintendent in the West Virginia school system, lived here from 1872 to 1904. He introduced important innovations in grading, promotion, and graduation procedures in 1874. These received such rave reviews from the National Education Association that ...