National Historic Landmark - Fort Walton Mound

A type site for the Indian culture present along the northwest Florida coast at the time of European contact in the sixteenth century.

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Fort San Marcos de Apalache Historic State Park

Located at the confluence of the St. Marks and Wakulla Rivers, Native Americans used the site of Fort San Marcos de Apalache for thousands of years. The fort was built by the Spanish in the 1600s to protect Spanish missions ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Mose

Fort Mose, a free Black military and residential community, officially known as Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, was the first legally sanctioned free Black community within the present boundaries of the United States. Its inhabitants were mainly runaway ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort King Site

As the council site and central location where Seminoles, Black Seminoles, and the U.S. government met to discuss the terms of President Jackson's Indian Removal Policy, the events at Fort King represent the escalating state of relations between these groups ...

National Historic Landmark - Ferdinand Magellan , US Car No. 1

Built in 1928 as the Pullman Company's FERDINAND MAGELLAN, this car was armor plated and donated for use by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942. Subsequently used by Harry S Truman and Ronald Reagan in presidential reelection campaigns.

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National Historic Landmark-Bennington Battlefield

National Historic Landmark- Bennington Battlefield

The American militia's victory at the Battle of Bennington (16 August, 1777) contributed significantly to the defeat of British General Burgoyne's army at Saratoga two months later.

The defeat also discouraged Burgoyne's already uneasy Indian allies and ...

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

Excavations for new construction in lower Manhattan in the early 1990s revealed the presence of burials dating as early as 1712.

Throughout the 18th century, the city's free and enslaved Africans buried their dead ...

National Historic Landmark - Adirondack Forest Preserve

National Historic Landmark - Adirondack Forest Preserve

This huge area became the first state forest preserve in the nation when New York State established it as a wilderness area in 1885.

The act of establishment encompassed all state-owned lands in the Adirondack ...

National Historic Landmar -Adams Power Plant Transformer House

National Historic Landmark - Adams Power Plant Transformer House

Until well into the 20th century, this electric-power generating facility retained its position as the largest hydroelectric power plant in the world.

The transformer house, built in 1895 from designs by McKim, Mead ...

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

Wolfe, a major American novelist, used his boyhood experiences in this rambling frame house in his novels, the first of which was LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL.

Wolfe's mother bought the house in 1906, and he ...