First Ladies National Historic Site

Americans did not start calling the president’s wife the “First Lady” until some time in the middle of the 19th century. Some people say Zachary Taylor was the first to use the term in his 1849 eulogy on the ...

Federal Hall National Memorial

Federal Hall National Memorial is a museum and memorial to the beginnings of the United States of America and to its first president. It stands on the site of the original Federal Hall, the first capitol of the United ...

Gerald R. Ford, Jr. House

Gerald Ford made his home in this typical, upper middle-class suburban house from 1955 until he became the 38th president of the United States after the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974. Ford was the first person ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated 35th president of the United States, he was the youngest person and the only Catholic ever elected to the nation’s highest office. Elected with the narrowest of margins by a nation fearful under ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial National Memorial

The national memorial dedicated to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, lies about half way between the Lincoln Memorial and the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC. Its four open-air rooms represent each of the ...

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site

"All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River" -FDR

For Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, Springwood, the family estate on the Hudson River in Hyde ...

Fort Mandan and the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center

Lewis & Clark’s Corps of Discovery spent the winter of 1804 – 1805 in Fort Mandan, an encampment they built along the Missouri River that they named after the people of the Mandan Nation. This was an important time for ...

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Busy port cities are a crucial part of the modern world, but there were similar places in years past as well. The Knife River area was an important trading and agricultural region inhabited by Native peoples for over 10,000 years. ...

Sergeant Floyd Riverboat Museum and Welcome Center

Launched in 1932, the M.V. Sergeant Floyd is a former inspection boat of the Army Corps of Engineers. The “Motor Vessel” is named in honor of Sergeant Charles Floyd, the only man to die on the Lewis and Clark expedition. He ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Osage

The site of Fort Osage sits on a 70-foot-high bluff overlooking a bend in the Missouri River. Captain William Clark noted this remarkable natural location on the Missouri River in his journal: “A high commanding position, more than 70 feet ...