National Historic Landmark -USS North Carolina (BB-55)

National Historic Landmark -NORTH CAROLINA, USS (Battleship)

First and namesake of a modern class of American battleships built just prior to World War II, USS NORTH CAROLINA set a standard for new shipbuilding technology that combined high speeds with powerful armament.

Her ...

National Historic Landmark -Menoken Indian Village Site

National Historic Landmark -Menoken Indian Village Site

This site shows certain structural and artifactual similarities to historic and prehistoric earthlodge villages along the Upper Missouri River.

Archaeological research in 1998-1999 demonstrates conclusively that this village was occupied during the early AD ...

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

By 1500 A.D., the Middle Missouri agricultural villages were the principal focus for social organization of Mandan people, who had developed extensive trading networks over the previous 200 years.

The Huff Village is one ...

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 -Big Hidatsa Village Site

National Historic Landmark -Big Hidatsa Village Site

Occupied from about 1740 to 1850, this is the largest of three Hidatsa communities near the mouth of the Knife River, showing the effects of nearly a century of fur trade interaction with ...

National Historic Landmark-Bagg Bonanza Farm

National Historic Landmark - Frederick A. and Sophia Bagg Bonanza Farm

The Bagg Bonanza Farm represents the broad patterns of Bonanza farms, which according to the -Atlantic Monthly- in 1880, were-destined to exercise a most potent influence on the production of ...

National Historic Landmark - Zero Gravity Research Facility

National Historic Landmark - Zero Gravity Research Facility

This facility was used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study the physics of handling liquids in a zero-gravity environment.

Knowledge of the characteristics of liquids in a low-gravity environment ...

National Historic Landmark - Colonel Charles Young House

National Historic Landmark - Colonel Charles Young House

This two story brick structure was the residence of Colonel Charles Young (1864-1922), the third Black person to graduate from West Point and the highest-ranking Black officer of the First World War.

Young ...

National Historic Landmark - Wright Flyer III

National Historic Landmark - Wright Flyer III

The Wright Flyer III (1905) is the world's first airplane capable of sustained controlled flight and suitable for practical applications.

It was with this airplane that the Wright Brothers perfected the technique of flying ...

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 ...