National Historic Landmark-Whitehall (Henry M. Flagler Estate)

Constructed in 1900-1901, Whitehall is nationally significant as the home of Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the captains of industry and commerce of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He made his fortune during the period immediately after the ...

Truman Little White House

At the Little White House, on December 3, 1951, President Harry S. Truman wrote the fourth Executive Order establishing the Committee on Government Contract Compliance to secure better compliance by contractors and subcontractors with laws that forbade discrimination because of ...

Cary A. White, Sr. Complex, FL School for the Deaf and the Blind

This classroom and dormitory area is dedicated to the memory of the first African American deaf graduate of the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind. Cary A. White, Sr. worked at the school for 46 years and was ...

Smallwood-White House State Historical Marker

A doubled-sided State Historical Marker for The White House/Pleasants Woodson White contains details on this house which was constructed in 1843 and remodeled to its present appearance in 1856. During the Civil War, this house was the residence of Pleasants ...

National Historic Landmark - Little White Schoolhouse

A meeting in this simple, one story clapboard and frame schoolhouse on March 20, 1854, and another in Jackson, Michigan, on July 6, to protest passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which permitted the extension of slavery beyond the limits of ...

Clara White Mission

The Clara White Mission is a memorial to the humanitarian activities of Clara English White (1845-1920), a former slave, and her adopted daughter, Eartha Mary Magdalene White (1876-1974). Clara White was a pioneer member of the Bethel Baptist Church. Her ...

Whitehouse

The White House, one of the most recognizable buildings in Washington, DC, was designed by James Hoban, an Irish-born and-trained architect who won a competition organized by President George Washington and Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson in 1792.

Hoban's inspiration for ...

Whitewater Hotel

Between its construction in 1894 and its general demise as a functioning hotel around 1952, the Whitewater Hotel was an important component in the commercial life of the city of Whitewater.

During this period, Whitewater's economy was almost entirely dependent ...

White Sands Missile Range

The White Sands Missile Range is nearly 3,200 square miles in area, the largest military installation in the United States. Located in 5 counties of NM, White Sands engineers and scientists conduct analysis using operational research, system engineering and scientific ...

White Sands National Monument

Sand dunes for miles, the hot sun beating down without a cloud in sight, the glistening white sands of New Mexico.

Nestled between the San Andres Mountains to the east and the Sacramento Mountains to the west, here, great wave-like ...