David Yulee and Cotton Wood Plantation

David Levy Yulee was born at St. Thomas, West Indies in 1810. He attended school in Virginia from 1819 until 1827 when he went to Micanopy to work on one of the plantations of his father, Moses Elias Levy. He ...

Captain George Carey House

Historic Marker number one is located at 410 Caroline Street, between Duval and Whitehead Streets, in the Key West Historic District.

This house was built in 1834 by Captain George Carey, an Englishman who ran a seaport bar and wholesale liquor ...

National Historic Landmark – Prospect

National Historic Landmark – Prospect

From 1902 to 1911, this house, built in the Tuscan villa style, was the residence of Woodrow Wilson.

Wilson lived at Prospect during a period significant both for his presidency of Princeton University and the beginning of ...

National Historic Landmark - Princeton Battlefield

National Historic Landmark - Princeton Battlefield

The battle that began at sunrise on January 3, 1777, on a field outside Princeton ended when British troops who were barricaded in Nassau Hall surrendered.

Washington's victory here helped raise the morale of the colonists ...

National Historic Landmark - President's House

National Historic Landmark - President's House

Erected in 1756, this two story, brick structure was the official residence of Princeton's president until 1879.

John Witherspoon, who occupied this Georgian house from 1768 to 1779, was a delegate to the Continental Congress and ...

National Historic Landmark - Paulsdale

National Historic Landmark - Paulsdale

Paulsdale was the childhood home of Alice Paul (1885-1977), a leader in the Woman's Suffrage Movement and advocate of Women's Rights.

Paul's strong Quaker upbringing influenced her views on the equality of the sexes and molded her ...

National Historic Landmark - Palisades Interstate Park

National Historic Landmark - Palisades Interstate Park

The Palisades Interstate Park (PIP) represents an unusual effort by two states, New Jersey and New York, to preserve the scenic beauty of the cliffs on the lower western side of the Hudson River.

The ...

National Historic Landmark - New St. Mary's Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark - New St. Mary's Episcopal Church

An important site in the history of the Gothic-Revival style in America.

The first attempt in this country to follow a specific English medieval church model for which measured drawings existed.

Its design and ...

National Historic Landmark - Lucy, The Margate Elephant

National Historic Landmark - Lucy, The Margate Elephant

Constructed about 1881 on the Margate waterfront, this seventy-five foot long wood and tin pachyderm is the last survivor of what one historian calls --zoomorphic architecture--.

Built as an architectural folly to ...

National Historic Landmark - Francis Hopkinson House

National Historic Landmark - Francis Hopkinson House

From 1774 until his death, this brick house was the residence of Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lawyer, author, and composer.