National Historic Landmark-NC Mutual Life Insurance Building

National Historic Landmark-North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building

Built in 1921, this building was the second home office of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was founded in 1898.

This company evolved out of a tradition of mutual ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Smith

Established in 1817 near the confluence of the Arkansas and Poteau rivers, the first fort at this site was among the earliest U.S. military posts in Missouri Territory. The fort's purpose was to control the encroachment into Osage lands by ...

National Historic Landmark-Start Point of LA Purchase Survey

This is the point from which the lands acquired through the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 were subsequently surveyed: the land surveys for all or part of the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, North and ...

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

National Historic Landmark -Connemara, The Carl Sandburg Farm

Sandburg, the poet, novelist, and writer of a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Lincoln, lived here from 1945 until his death in 1967.

C.G. Memminger, the builder of the house, was Secretary of the ...

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

National Historic Landmark -Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory

In 1890 Washington Duke's son, James B. Duke, organized the American Tobacco Company, preeminent in its time.

The family's frame house, reconstructed small tobacco factory of log construction, and frame third factory (c. ...

National Historic Landmark -Fort Fisher

National Historic Landmark -Fort Fisher

An earthen Confederate stronghold which created an impassable barrier for the blockading Union fleet.

Its fall, in January 1865, helped spell the collapse of the Confederacy.

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National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

National Historic Landmark -Guilford Court House Battlefield

On 15 March, 1781 the British Army defeated Major General Nathanael Greene at Guildford Court House in one of the most intense battles of the Revolutionary War.

The victory cost Cornwallis over one-fourth of ...

National Historic Landmark-N C Mutual Life Insurance Building

National Historic Landmark - North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building

Built in 1921, this building was the second home office of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was founded in 1898.

This company evolved out of a ...

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

By 1500 A.D., the Middle Missouri agricultural villages were the principal focus for social organization of Mandan people, who had developed extensive trading networks over the previous 200 years.

The Huff Village is one ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Union Trading Post

National Historic Landmark - Fort Union Trading Post

This was the principal fur-trading depot in the Upper Missouri River region from 1829 to 1867.