National Historic Landmark - Arkansas Post

Established in 1686 by Henri de Tonti, a lieutenant of La Salle, this trading post near the mouth of the Arkansas River was the first successful French settlement in the Lower Mississippi Valley. Apparently abandoned and later reclaimed by the ...

National Historic Landmark -Capitol (North Carolina)

National Historic Landmark -Capitol (North Carolina)

An example of Greek Revival architecture (1833-1840) in its most sophisticated form; designed by three major 19th century architects - Ithiel Town, Alexander Jackson Davis, and David Paton.

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National Historic Landmark -Christ Episcopal Church

National Historic Landmark -Christ Episcopal Church

Begun in 1846, this edifice is one of the first Gothic Revival churches in the Southern states.

Designed by Richard Upjohn, this modest asymmetrical building with a steeply pitched roof was derived from a rural ...

National Historic Landmark -Cupola House

National Historic Landmark -Cupola House

Built c. 1725 and remodeled in 1756-58, this structure is an outstanding example of a timber-framed residence illustrating the transition from 17th century Jacobean to 18th century Georgian architectural styles.

In all the southern colonies, it is ...

National Historic Landmark -Hayes Plantation

National Historic Landmark -Hayes Plantation

This imposing plantation house, dating from 1814-1817 and designed by William Nichols, is one of the South's most accomplished examples of a five-part Palladian villa.

The frame building's central block is connected to dependencies connected by ...

National Historic Landmark -Hinton Rowan Helper House

National Historic Landmark -Hinton Rowan Helper House

Residence (1829-49) of Helper, author of THE IMPENDING CRISIS (1857), a book which condemned the institution of slavery for economic, though not moral, reasons.

The publication was used for political purposes by the Republicans ...

National Historic Landmark - Nash-Hooper House

National Historic Landmark - Nash-Hooper House

Built by Francis Nash, Revolutionary War hero and general.

Home, from 1782 until his death in 1790, of William Hooper, a signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina and a delegate to the ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Union Trading Post

National Historic Landmark - Fort Union Trading Post

This was the principal fur-trading depot in the Upper Missouri River region from 1829 to 1867.

National Historic Landmark -Wright Cycle Co and Wright Printing

National Historic Landmark -Wright Cycle Company And Wright Printing Shop

This building is the site where, from 1895 to 1897, Wilbur and Orville Wright began to manufacture their own brand of bicycles.

This activity contributed the know-how and financial resources ...

National Historic Landmark -W.P. SNYDER, JR. (Towboat)

National Historic Landmark -W.P. SNYDER, JR. (Towboat)

Towboats have been employed moving barges on all the navigable waters of the Western Rivers, and have been an important component of the American transportation system since the 1850s.

Few examples of any paddlewheel ...