Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site and Old Post Office

Pennsylvania Avenue is certainly among the world's most famous streets. While the Avenue serves work-a-day Washington as a major east-west transit route, it is known the world over as the heart of the Nation's Capital. Many Presidential inauguration parades and ...

Ford's Theater National Historic Site

Ford's Theater was the location of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on the night of April 14, 1865, while the President and Mrs. Lincoln were attending a performance of the play, "Our American Cousin." Actor John Wilkes Booth, in this ...

Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site

This traditionally black neighborhood of several blocks in Atlanta includes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth home, the Ebenezer Baptist Church where he was a pastor, and his gravesite. Martin Luther King, Jr., was the nation's most prominent leader in the ...

National Historic Site

San Juan

Here in San Juan are the oldest European type masonry fortifications in United States Territory. The historic site includes the Spanish built forts of El Morro, El Canuelo, San Cristobal, Casa Blanca and the old city walls. These structures ...

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Three miles west is the central unit of the Andrew Johnson National Historic Site which includes the 17th president’s small tailor shop, the home in which he lived from 1838 to 1851, a museum, and administrative offices. Other units are ...

Minuteman National Historic Site

During the Cold War, the American and Soviet military superpowers propelled the world into an era of perpetual fear and panic. At the peak of the nuclear arms race in the 1960s, the United States developed the Minuteman II intercontinental ...

National Historic Landmark- Hagen Site

An archeological site representing one of the Crow villages after the tribe had split from the Hidatsa on the Missouri River (c. 1550-1675). The site has the potential to reveal evidence on the extent to which horticulture was still being ...

National Historic Landmark - Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site

National Historic Landmark - Hadrosaurus Foulkii Leidy Site

Discovered by William Parker Foulke in October 1858, Hadrosaurus foulkii Leidy was the first relatively complete dinosaur skeleton found in North America, and, in fact, anywhere in the world.

Realizing the spectacular nature of ...

National Historic Landmark - Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site

National Historic Landmark - Washington's Headquarters

This Dutch Colonial fieldstone residence was used by Washington from April 1, 1782, to August 19, 1783, during the closing days of the Revolution.

Here he drafted crucial documents that laid the foundation for the new ...

National Historic Landmark -Fort Orange Archeological Site

National Historic Landmark -Fort Orange Archeological Site

These are the remains of Fort Orange, a small, half-acre, fortified, wooden palisades-walled, earthwork military post occupied by Dutch garrisons 1624-1664 and 1673-1674, and by British troops from 1674-1676.

Dutch West India Company employees ...