National Historic Landmark-Friends Hospital

National Historical Landmark- Friends Hospital

Friends Hospital was the first private, nonprofit, exclusively mental hospital in the United States and is the oldest continuing such institution.

The social and medical concerns which Quakers held regarding psychiatric problems guided Friends Hospital in ...

National Historic Landmark-Founders Hall Girard College

National Historical Landmark-Founders Hall Girard College

This is an outstanding example of philanthropic support for education in the United States, and also one of the finest late Greek Revival buildings in America.

Wealthy merchant Stephen Girard bequeathed $6 million to Philadelphia ...

National Historic Landmark-Fort Mifflin

National Historical Landmark-Fort Mifflin

In October and November 1777, Fort Mifflin was the scene of a spirited defense by the Americans against a British fleet intent on opening the Delaware River supply line into newly captured Philadelphia.

Although the British captured ...

National Historic Landmark-Forks of the Ohio

National Historical Landmark- Forks of the Ohio

This is the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers and is the strategic key to the Ohio Valley.

The French erected Fort Duquesne here in 1754; the British replaced it with Fort Pitt ...

National Historic Landmark-First Bank of the United States

National Historical Landmark-The First Bank of the United States

The proposal to charter this institution provoked the first great debate over strict as opposed to expansive interpretation of the Constitution.

The Congress and President Washington, by following Alexander Hamilton's proposal and chartering ...

National Historic Landmark-Fallingwater

National Historical Landmark- Fallingwater

A summer house built for a Pittsburgh millionaire, Fallingwater (1937) has been called the most famous modern house in the world.

The house, cantilevered over a waterfall, is one of Frank Lloyd Wright's masterworks.

National Historic Landmark-Fairmount Waterworks

National Historical Landmark-Fairmount Water Works

The Fairmount Water Works, located on the east bank of the Schuylkill River at the head of navigable waters, used innovative methods for pumping water and was an integral part of the initial five acres ...

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church - West Palm Beach

Organized by the Rev. Charles Long, Sr. in 1900, St. Paul is the oldest church in Pleasant City. As membership grew, the congregation built a small church and named it Gethsemane. When African American families were forced to move from ...

Hurricane of 1928 Mass Burial Site Historical Marker

On September 16, 1928, a hurricane came ashore near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm Beach County to Lake Okeechobee, Many of the 1,800 to 3,000 fatalities occurred when the Lake Okeechobee dike collapsed, flooding the populated south ...

The La France Hotel

Built in 1947 by Charles Patrick, the La France Hotel was one of the few establishments in South Florida that rented rooms to African Americans, including such great talents as Duke Ellington.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.