National Historic Landmark-Florence Mills House

National Historical Landmark-Florence Mills House

Home (1910-27) of the popular African American singer who in the 1920s achieved stardom on Broadway and in Europe, thus becoming a symbol of success for Black Americans.

Ms. Mills starred in such productions as Shuffle ...

National Historic Landmark-Lewis Miller Cottage

National Historical Landmark-Chautauqua Institution Lewis Miller Cottage

The Chautauqua Institution flourished in the last quarter of the 19th century, contributing to the democratization of education through summer programs, and expanding to include a home study program and a press.

Miller, a co-founder, ...

National Historic Landmark-Steepletop St.Vincent Millay Home

National Historical Landmark-Edna St. Vincent Millay House & Gardens (Steepletop)

From 1925 until 1950, Steepletop was the home of Pulitzer-Prize poet Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) one of America's most important literary figures of the 20th century.

Feminist, agnostic, and ...

National Historic Landmark-Lorillard Snuff Mill

National Historic Landmark- Lorillard Snuff Mill

Constructed 1840 in by the P. Lorillard Company, the Lorillard Snuff Mill is the nation's oldest extant tobacco factory and a symbol of the importance of tobacco in the development of commerce and industry in ...

National Historic Landmark - Harmony Mills

National Historic Landmark - Harmony Mills

From the late 1860s through the 1880s, the Harmony Mills Company was one of the largest American producers of cotton fabric for printed calicoes and fine cotton muslins.

Harmony Mill No. 3 was the largest ...

National Historic Landmark-Millard Fillmore House

National Historic Landmark-Millard Fillmore

Only remaining residence of Fillmore, 13th President of the United States, who built this house and resided here in 1826-30.

Fillmore was a conservative president during a time of rising sectional differences in the decade before the Civil ...

National Historic Landmark -Mill Grove

National Historic Landmark -Mill Grove (John James Audubon House)

John James Audubon (1785-1851), famous American naturalist and artist, lived in this 2 1/2 story fieldstone farm house from 1804 to 1808.

It was here Audubon made his earliest observations of ...

National Historic Landmark- Lightfoot Mill

National Historic Landmark- Lightfoot Mill

Lightfoot Mill represents an extremely rare archetypal example of a small, eighteenth century custom grain mill with its surviving, completely intact, power transmission system. Surveys suggest that no other custom mills in the United States survive ...

National Historic Landmark-Slater Mill

National Historic Landmark-Old Slater Mill

Here, Samuel Slater (1768-1835) perfected America's first successful water-powered spinning machine in 1790, and helped to build the country's first successful cotton mill in 1793.

His mill is operated as a museum.

Courtesy National Park Service National ...

National Historic Landmark-Robert Mills House

National Historic Landmark- Robert Mills House

This Classical two story brick mansion was built for a wealthy merchant by Robert Mills (1781-1855), native South Carolinian, first Federal architect and the designer of the Washington Monument.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historic Landmarks

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