Warm Springs Historic District

At Warm Springs, Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States found the strength to resume his political career and a positive outlet for his own personal struggle with polio through creation of the Warm Springs Foundation. Roosevelt ...

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 ...

President Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover's Rapidan Camp

Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States, bought the land for his summer weekend retreat in 1929, during the first peaceful days of his administration. The camp provided Hoover and his wife much needed rest and recreation ...

Lewis and Clark National Historical Park

The Corps of Discovery's arrival to the Pacific coast in November 1805 was an astonishing feat. Even so, the thirty-three members of the Corps were not finished with their journey. They still needed to get back home and winter was ...

Columbia Gorge Discovery Center

Traveling down the unfamiliar waters of the Columbia River, Captain William Clark and his expedition luckily escaped misfortune. After a wild trip through the Narrows, on October 26, 1805, Clark wrote, “all our articles we have exposed to the Sun ...

Woodrow Wilson Birthplace

Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States, was born in this Greek Revival manse in 1856. Built in 1846 to house the pastors of Staunton's First Presbyterian Church, the manse's second occupants were Dr. and Mrs. Joseph ...

Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center at Cape Disappointment State Park

In the fall of 1805, after navigating their canoes through weeks of cold rain and fog, the Corps of Discovery reached the mouth of the Columbia River.

The entry William Clark jotted down in the notebook, which he kept ready ...

Sacajawea Interpretive and Cultural Center

After months of arduous travel, the Corps of Discovery reached the Columbia River at the site of today’s Sacajawea Historical State Park on October 16, 1805. Here, at the confluence of the Columbia and Snake rivers, the Corps camped near ...

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. ...