National Historic Landmark - Coloma

An Artist's View

”The principle street of Coloma was alive with crowds of moving men, passing and repassing, laughing, talking, and all appearing in the best of humor. It was a scene that no other country could ever imitate.”

from “A California ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Snelling

This historical ground was a pivotal place in the development of the Northwest. With the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, Fort Snelling expanded its limestone walls into this area, formerly a part of the U.S. Indian Agency and ...

National Historic Landmark - The Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum

The Flag House was the home of Mary Pickersgill and the site where she sewed the Star-Spangled Banner.

Mary Pickersgill moved into the Flag House in 1807 with her mother, Rebecca Young, and her daughter Caroline, and set up a ...

National Historic Landmark - Jackson Square - Vieux Carré

National Historic Landmark

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Jackson Square

has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935.

This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and interpreting the history of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Phoenix Shot Tower

Built in 1828 by the Phoenix Shot Tower Company, this soaring 215 foot structure is the last remaining shot tower of the three that accented Baltimore’s skyline in the 19th century. Shot pellets used as ammunition for muskets was produced ...

National Historic Landmark - South Point Complex, Ka Lae

South Point Complex

has been designated a

Registered National

Historic Landmark

under the provisions of the

Historical Sites act of August 21st 1935.

This site possesses exceptional value

in commemorating and illustrating

the history of United States.

U.S. Department of ...

National Historic Landmark- Virginia City, Nevada

[Located in the center of town is a monument on which there is mounted six markers commemorating historical events and people of Virginia City]

West Side - Front of Monument:

In June of 1859 in Gold Canyon, a second group of Prospectors ...

National Historic Landmark - New Echota

Cherokee National Capital

The sprawling town of New Town which had stood here since 1819 was designated the seat Of government for the Cherokee Nation in A legislative act of 1825 and it was renamed New Echota for a former principal ...

National Historic Landmark - Howard High School

First Secondary School for Blacks in Delaware

Founded in 1867 by the Association for the Moral Improvement and Education of Colored People and named for Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard, the original school was located at 12th and Orange Streets.

Pierre ...

National Historic Landmark - Kennedy Farm

Staging and Planning John Brown's Harpers Ferry Raid

This is the Kennedy farmhouse, which abolitionist John Brown (using the pseudonym Isaac Smith) leased in July 1859 from Dr. Robert Kennedy's heirs, ostensibly to do some prospecting. Brown's fifteen-year-old daughter, Annie ...