Shenandoah-Dives (Mayflower) Mill

The Shenandoah-Dives Mill is an intact and fully functional mill and includes all of its original equipment from the early 20th century. Constructed in 1929, the Shenandoah-Dives Mill is the finest extant example of a selective flotation mill. This property ...

National Historic Landmark- Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

National Historical Landmark- Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims

Between 1849 and the outbreak of the Civil War, Henry Ward Beecher, noted abolitionist and minister of Plymouth Church, made the church a center of antislavery sentiment.

William Lloyd Garrison and John Greenleaf Whittier ...

National Historic Landmark-Petrified Sea Gardens

National Historical Landmark- Petrified Sea Gardens

Petrified Sea Gardens is significant in the history of geology as the area where stromatolites were first recognized, described, and interpreted in North America, resolving questions about the origin of these organisms that puzzled geologists ...

National Historic Landmark-Oriskany Battlefield

National Historical Landmark- Oriskany Battlefield

Site of a fierce battle between American militiamen attempting to relieve Fort Stanwix and a combined force of British Loyalists and Indians.

Although the American patriot force failed to raise the siege at that time, the ...

National Historic Landmark - Newtown Battlefield

National Historic Landmark - Newtown Battlefield

Site of a battle (29 August 1779) that was a result an expedition lead by Maj. Gen. John Sullivan and was the major American military effort of 1779.

General George Washington ordered the Sullivan expedition as ...

National Historic Landmark-School of Drawing, Painting

National Historic Landmark - New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture

This was the original site of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the first museum to be exclusively devoted to American art of the 20th century and the ...

National Historic Landmark - New York Life Building

National Historic Landmark - New York Life Building

The New York Life Insurance Company, founded in 1841 as the Nautilus Insurance Company, has played a major role in the development of life insurance policies and practices.

One of the nation's ...

National Historic Landmark - New York Chamber of Commerce

National Historic Landmark - New York Chamber of Commerce

Founded in 1768, the New York Chamber of Commerce has served as the organizational prototype for the development of similar institutions promoting the interests of American business on the national, State, ...

National Historic Landmark - Samuel F.B. Morse House

National Historic Landmark - Samuel F.B. Morse House

Morse purchased this house in 1847, three years after his successful telegraphic transmission of a message from Washington to Baltimore.

He used it as his summer residence and enlarged it into the present octagon-shaped ...

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 ...