National Historic Landmark - The Speedwell Village Factory

National Historic Landmark - The Speedwell Village Factory

Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872) developed and successfully demonstrated the telegraph in the Vail Factory in 1838.

The Village is the site of a 19th century ironworks complex, including the Vail Homestead, Factory, and ...

National Historic Landmark - Craftsman Farms

National Historic Landmark - Craftsman Farms

Craftsman Farms is the former home and school of Gustav Stickley, one of the leaders of the Arts and Crafts movement in America.

Established in 1908, the farm-school was in operation until 1915.

Stickley produced a new ...

National Historic Landmark - Abbott Farm Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Abbott Farm

Abbott Farm is the largest known Middle Woodland (ca. 500 B.C.-500 A.D.) village site in the coastal Mid-Atlantic/New England region.

This property became the focal point of a famous 40-year controversy about the antiquity of human ...

National Historic Landmark- Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong

National Historic Landmark -Village of Columbus and Camp Furlong

On March 9, 1916, approximately 485 Mexican revolutionaries under the command of Gen. Francisco --Pancho-- Villa (1877?-1923) crossed into the United States and attacked the sleeping border town of Columbus, killing 10 ...

National Historic Landmark - Santa Fe Plaza

National Historic Landmark - Santa Fe Plaza

The Plaza has been the social, economic, and (in its early days) defensive center of the city established in the winter of 1609-10; traders and travelers knew it as the terminus of the Santa ...

National Historic Landmark- San Francisco De Assisi Mission

National Historic Landmark - San Francisco De Assisi Mission Church

Constructed between 1772 and 1816, this is a large and excellent example of the New Mexican Spanish Colonial church.

The white stuccoed adobe walls are exceptionally massive.

National Historic Landmark - Palace of the Governors

National Historic Landmark - Palace of the Governors

Erected (1610-12) as the fortress of the royal presidio of Santa Fe, the Palacio Real is the oldest public building built by European settlers in the continental United States.

It served as the residence ...

National Historic Landmark - Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio

National Historic Landmark - Georgia O'Keeffe Home and Studio

Georgia O'Keeffe occupies a pivotal, pioneering position in American art.

She created her own style by adapting early modernist tenets to quintessentially American motifs.

Her stark paintings of cattle skulls bleached by the desert ...

National Historic Landmark - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

National Historic Landmark - Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory

Founded January 1, 1943, on the Pajarito Plateau of the Jemez Mountains for the purpose of developing an instrument of war--the nuclear fission bomb--Los Alamos continues to be a center for research on ...

National Historic Landmark- Glorieta Pass Battlefield

National Historical Landmark- Glorieta Pass Battlefield

In February 1862, a Confederate brigade of 2,500 Texans marched up the Rio Grande Valley, with the intention of driving through Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and onto Denver; 1,300 Federal soldiers moved to intercept them.

The ...