National Historic Landmark-Fallen Timbers Battlefield

National Historic Landmark- Fallen Timbers Battlefield

On August 20, 1794, General ,Mad Anthony, Wayne's victory here over the Indians at Fallen Timbers asserted American sovereignty in the Old Northwest and made possible the Treaty of Green Ville.

The battle and treaty ...

National Historic Landmark-Wilson Bruce Evans Home

National Historic Landmark- Wilson Bruce Evans Home

This house was the home of Wilson Bruce Evans (1824-1898), a leading black abolitionist and successful member of Oberlin's commercial and educational communities.

Evans and his brother Henry participated in the dramatic 1858 Oberlin-Wellington ...

National Historic Landmark-Thomas Edison Birthplace

National Historic Landmark- Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace

This small brick cottage was the birthplace of Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), one of America's most illustrious inventors.

Although he left here in 1854, Edison cherished the memory of this house; in 1906, he ...

National Historic Landmark-Paul Laurence Dunbar

National Historic Landmark- Paul Laurence Dunbar House

From 1903 until his death, this modest two-story red brick structure was the residence of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), the distinguished black poet.

His poetic use of black dialect to convey both the joys ...

National Historic Landmark - COD, USS (Submarine

National Historic Landmark - COD, USS (Submarine)

A GATO class submarine that is the lowest numbered World War II submarine preserved today, and only one of that era that has not been altered to accommodate civilian visitor access.

Launched in March 1943, ...

National Historic Landmark - Cincinnati Observatory

National Historic Landmark - Cincinnati Observatory

In the late-nineteenth century, the Cincinnati Observatory was known worldwide for its endeavors in the field of proper motions, gravitational studies, and sidereal astronomy, including double stars, nebulae and clusters.

It is nationally significant for ...

National Historic Landmark -Beginning U.S. Public Land Survey

National Historic Landmark -Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey

This is the point from which a rectangular-grid land survey system was established under the Ordinance of 1785, which provided for administration and subdivision of land in the Old ...

National Historic Landmark - Baum-Taft House

National Historic Landmark - Baum-Taft House

One of the earliest grand mansions with Federalist detail in Ohio, this single story structure (c. 1820) was formerly the home of Charles P. Taft, half-brother of President Taft.

In 1908, William Howard Taft accepted ...

National Historic Landmark-Washita Battlefield

National Historic Landmark- Washita Battlefield

Washita Battlefield protects and interprets the site of the Southern Cheyenne village of Peace Chief Black Kettle that was attacked by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George A. Custer just before dawn on November ...

National Historic Landmark-Sequoyah's Cabin

National Historic Landmark-Sequoyah's Cabin

This is a frontier house of logs, occupied (1829-44) by Sequoyah (George Gist), the teacher who in 1821 invented a syllabary which made it possible to write and read the Cherokee language. The giant California sequoia trees ...