National Historic Landmark - Joseph Henry House

National Historic Landmark - Joseph Henry House

This was the home of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), who did important research in the field of electromagnetism and served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-78) and President of the National Academy ...

National Historic Landmark - Great Falls of the Passaic Society

National Historic Landmark - Great Falls of the Passaic Society for Useful Manufacturing HD

Developed by Alexander Hamilton and Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Great Falls district is the site of the first attempt in the United States to harness the entire ...

National Historic Landmark- Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co

National Historic Landmark - Great Atlantic And Pacific Tea Company Warehouse

From its beginnings in 1859 as a leather and tea importing business in New York to its position as the nation's largest retailer by the mid-20th century, A&P outstandingly ...

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 - Cape May Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Cape May Historic District

With over 600 summer homes, hotels and commercial structures, this venerable seashore resort has one of the largest collections of 19th century frame buildings remaining in the United States.

National Historic Landmark - Burlington County Prison

National Historic Landmark - Burlington County Prison

This modest county prison was designed and constructed (1811) after plans embodying the most modern correctional methods prevalent in the early years of the 19th century.

Its heavy stone walls were also an early attempt ...

National Historic Landmark - Pietro and Maria Botto House

National Historic Landmark - Pietro and Maria Botto House

On January 27, 1913, 800 workers at one of the largest silk mills in the silk manufacturing capital of the country walked off the job, in a dispute over job security, low ...

National Historic Landmark - Zuni-Cibola Complex

National Historic Landmark - Zuni-Cibola Complex

The Zuni-Cibola Complex is comprised of a series of sites on the Zuni Reservation, containing house ruins, kivas, pictographs, petroglyphs, trash mounds, and a mission church and convent.

They have proven to be an important source ...

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- Taos Pueblo

National Historic Landmark -Taos Pueblo

One of the most traditional of the Eastern Pueblos, Taos has borrowed from Anglo- and Spanish-American cultures over centuries of contact, while retaining its cultural integrity and identity as a community.

In the 17th century, the Pueblo ...