National Historic Landmark - Lawrenceville School

National Historic Landmark - Lawrenceville School

A rare, surviving example of the successful collaboration of architects and landscape planners, this school, which pioneered progressive education, retains its historic appearance as almost no other private school in the country.

Designed by Peabody and ...

National Historic Landmark -Delaware and Hudson Canal

National Historic Landmark -Delaware and Hudson Canal

Principal waterway connecting the coalfields of Pennsylvania with the furnaces of New York. The growth of railroads led to the canal's demise after 1899

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks

National Historic Landmark-Joshua R. Giddings Law Office

National Historic Landmark-Joshua R. Giddings Law Office

For most of his professional life, this small two-room frame structure was the law office of Joshua Reed Giddings (1785-1864), abolitionist and Congressman (1838-1859).

While in Congress, his unwavering objective was the elimination of ...

National Historic Landmark-Robbins & Lawrence Armory & Machine

National Historical Landmarks-Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop

Erected in 1846, the Robbins and Lawrence Armory and Machine Shop is an excellent example of 19h century American industrial architecture.

During the 1840s and 1850s the company designed and manufactured ...

Woodlawn Cemetery - West Palm Beach

In a roundabout at its center, this cemetery contains a Confederate monument erected by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1941.

Also buried in this cemetery are approximately 30 Union veterans, including Willmon Whilldin of the 6th New Jersey ...

Woodlawn Cemetery

This cemetery contains side by side plots of Confederate and Union veterans each with their own monument. The Confederate monument was erected in 1913 by the United Confederate Veterans and lists the names of the 30 veterans buried there.

The ...

Historic Oaklawn Cemetery

Oaklawn opened in 1859 as Tampa's first public cemetery. The first person buried here was an unnamed slave who was owned by the Lesley family. A slave burial ground is located in the center, along with grave sites of prominent ...

Wardlaw-Smith-Goza House

Prominent Madison County citizen, Benjamin F. Wardlaw, began construction of this house in 1860. The home served as a temporary hospital for Confederate and Union wounded following the Battle of Olustee in February 1864. In May 1865, Confederate Secretary of ...

Oaklawn Cemetery

This hallowed ground set aside as a town

burial site in 1850 "for whites & slaves alike"

is the resting place for many of Tampa's founding fathers, mayors, and county officers.

A governor of Florida, two Supreme Court

Judges, framers ...

Paul Lawrence Dunbar Apartment Complex

One of America's wealthiest men, John D. Rockefeller Jr., also expressed his generous spirit by contributing greatly to the African American community in New York City.

Rockefeller financed the Paul Lawrence Dunbar Complex, named after the nineteenth century African American ...