National Historic Landmark - Monmouth Battlefield

National Historic Landmark - Monmouth Battlefield

This Landmark commemorates The Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778.

This was a pivotal engagement of the Revolutionary War, since it marked the combat debut of the improved Continental Army, tempered by a long winter of ...

National Historic Landmark - Maybury Hill

National Historic Landmark - Maybury Hill

This little-altered Georgian stone farmhouse was the boyhood home of Joseph Hewes (1730-1779).

Hewes moved to North Carolina in 1760 and was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the Continental Congress ...

National Historic Landmark - Lucy, The Margate Elephant

National Historic Landmark - Lucy, The Margate Elephant

Constructed about 1881 on the Margate waterfront, this seventy-five foot long wood and tin pachyderm is the last survivor of what one historian calls --zoomorphic architecture--.

Built as an architectural folly to ...

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 - Horn Antenna

National Historic Landmark - Horn Antenna

The Horn Antenna, at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, is associated with the research work of two radio astronomers, Dr. Arno A. Penzias and Dr. Robert A. Wilson.

In 1965, while using the Horn Antenna, Penzias and ...

National Historic Landmark - Francis Hopkinson House

National Historic Landmark - Francis Hopkinson House

From 1774 until his death, this brick house was the residence of Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, lawyer, author, and composer.

National Historic Landmark - Hermitage

National Historic Landmark - Hermitage

Rebuilt and enlarged (1845) from an 18th century structure, this is the only remaining Gothic Revival house definitely attributable to William Ranlett.

It is an outstanding example of the early, romantic phase of the Gothic Revival in ...

National Historic Landmark - Joseph Henry House

National Historic Landmark - Joseph Henry House

This was the home of Joseph Henry (1797-1878), who did important research in the field of electromagnetism and served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-78) and President of the National Academy ...

National Historic Landmark- Hangar No. 1, Lakehurst Naval Air

National Historic Landmark -Hangar No. 1, Lakehurst Naval Air Station

Commissioned in 1921, Lakehurst Naval Air Station became the hub of naval lighter-than-air activity;

it was the home port for the Navy's rigid airships SHENNANDOAH, LOS ANGELES, AKRON, and MACON.

In addition, it ...

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 ...