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National Historic Landmark-LIGHTSHIP NO. 87 AMBROSE
National Historic Landmark- LIGHTSHIP Number 87 AMBROSE
National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House
National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House
National Historic Landmark -Jean Hasbrouck House
National Historic Landmark -Jean Hasbrouck House
Bui...
National Historic Landmark -W. and L.E. Gurley Building
National Historic Landmark - W. & L.E. Gurley Building...
National Historic Landmark -General Electric Research Laboratory
National Historic Landmark -General Electric Research Labo...
National Historic Landmark -Bentonville Battlefield
National Historic Landmark -Bentonville Battlefield
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National Historic Landmark - Bethabara
National Historic Landmark - Bethabara
Bethabara was...
National Historic Landmark - Bethania Historic District
National Historic Landmark - Bethania Historic District
National Historic Landmark - Biltmore Estate
National Historic Landmark - Biltmore Estate
In 1888...
National Historic Landmark -W.T. Blackwell and Co Tobacco Factory
National Historic Landmark -W.T. Blackwell and Company Tob...
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National Historic Landmark-LIGHTSHIP NO. 87 AMBROSE
National Historic Landmark- LIGHTSHIP Number 87 AMBROSE
Now known by her last official designation Ambrose, NO. 87 was built (1907) to serve as the first lightship on the newly established Nantucket station, where she served to guide mariners into the nation's ...
National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House
National Historic Landmark - Franklin B. Hough House
Residence (1863-85) of Dr. Hough, the father of American forestry.
He was the first Federal forestry official and the author of the first American book on forestry.
In 1855, Hough wrote the bill ...
National Historic Landmark -Jean Hasbrouck House
National Historic Landmark -Jean Hasbrouck House
Built in two stages -- a one-room house in 1694 that was enlarged in 1712 to become both home and store -- this stone structure survives as the best example of a 17th-century Flemish Colonial ...
National Historic Landmark -W. and L.E. Gurley Building
National Historic Landmark - W. & L.E. Gurley Building
This factory (1862), as enlarged, has housed the W & L. E. Gurley Company, which is known worldwide for the design and manufacture of precision mathematical and engineering instruments.
Gurley company ...
National Historic Landmark -General Electric Research Laboratory
National Historic Landmark -General Electric Research Laboratory
Established in 1900, this is recognized as the first industrial research facility in the United States.
The General Electric Research Laboratory has made major contributions to scientific knowledge, especially in the areas of physics ...
National Historic Landmark -Bentonville Battlefield
National Historic Landmark -Bentonville Battlefield
The Battle of Bentonville, where two military titans of the Civil War--Gens. William T. Sherman and Joseph E. Johnston--faced each other for the final time in a major battle, was the last occasion on which a ...
National Historic Landmark - Bethabara
National Historic Landmark - Bethabara
Bethabara was the first colonial townsite established in the Carolina Piedmont.
The town was intended to be a temporary town from which the central Moravian town of Salem and outlying farming communities would be developed within ...
National Historic Landmark - Bethania Historic District
National Historic Landmark - Bethania Historic District
Bethania is nationally significant because it is a rare example of the agricultural patterns of a German, -open field- agricultural village.
The Bethania Town Lot also illustrates Moravian community planning and development.
Bethania is ...
National Historic Landmark - Biltmore Estate
National Historic Landmark - Biltmore Estate
In 1888, George W. Vanderbilt (1862-1914) began the purchase of over 125,000 acres of farms, woodlands, and forested mountains.
In 1892, Vanderbilt appointed as superintendent of his forest Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946), who proved for the first ...
National Historic Landmark -W.T. Blackwell and Co Tobacco Factory
National Historic Landmark -W.T. Blackwell and Company Tobacco Factory
From 1874 to 1957, this factory was the home of Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco, the first truly national tobacco brand.
At one time this building, where tobacco was manufactured, bagged and ...