Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo

The Cathedral of San Carlos Borromeo, also known as the Royal Presidio Chapel, is a National Historic Landmark located in Monterey California and is the oldest stone building within California.

Father Junipero Serra founded San Carlos Borromeo de Monterey ...

Gilbert Brewery

The H. S. Gilbert Brewery, Montana Territory’s oldest brewery, located at the corner of Hamilton and Cover streets, is an example of once-common small town breweries. Though several additions to the 1860s building expanded the booming business, its exterior appearance ...

George Washington Memorial Parkway

Mount Vernon Memorial Highway, the first section of the George Washington Memorial Parkway, opened in 1932, the bicentennial of the birth of the man who shaped the nation as peerless leader in the War for Independence, chairman of the Constitutional ...

George Washington's Birthplace

By the time of George Washington’s birth in 1732 on the marshy shores of Popes Creek, his family had been on the land between Mattox and Popes Creek for three quarters of a century. The George Washington Birthplace National Monument ...

Lewis Clark Interpretive Center

"We commence building our cabins."

- William Clark, November 3, 1804

That simple journal entry marked the construction of Fort Mandan, the Corps of Discovery's winter home from 1804-1805. Through the winter, Lewis & Clark interviewed members of the nearby Mandan-Hidatsa ...

The Portage of the Great Falls

Having discovered a series of waterfalls on a twenty-mile stretch of the Missouri River in present-day Great Falls, Montana, the Corps of Discovery established their base camp, called Lower Portage Camp, and began their preparations for the portage around the ...

Explorers at the Portage

When the Corps of Discovery passed through the site of present-day Great Falls in June 1805 and again in July 1806, grizzly bears, or “white bears” as they were also called, frequented areas along the Missouri River here in the ...

The Great Falls of the Missouri

While wintering with the Hidatsa Indians at Fort Mandan in 1804-1805, the Indians informed Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark of waterfalls on the Missouri River. But little did the captains know that those waterfalls would number five in total ...

Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center

Embark on your own “voyage of discovery” at the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center in Great Falls, Montana. Operated by the USDA Forest Service, the Center was built in 1998 on the bluffs overlooking the Missouri River, ...

La Casa Cordova

Casa Cordova is the oldest continually occupied residence in Tucson, Arizona. The Cordova family, who acquired the home in 1936, gave the house its name. The house’s exact date of construction is unknown, but town officials believe that original construction ...