National Historic Landmark - American Stock Exchange

National Historic Landmark - American Stock Exchange

This handsome Art Deco building, erected in 1921 and enlarged 1929-1931, houses one of the nation's most important securities exchanges.

Tracing its origins to 1849, when the discovery of gold in California precipitated an increase ...

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

National Historic Landmark - African Burial Ground

Excavations for new construction in lower Manhattan in the early 1990s revealed the presence of burials dating as early as 1712.

Throughout the 18th century, the city's free and enslaved Africans buried their dead ...

National Historic Landmark - Adirondack Forest Preserve

National Historic Landmark - Adirondack Forest Preserve

This huge area became the first state forest preserve in the nation when New York State established it as a wilderness area in 1885.

The act of establishment encompassed all state-owned lands in the Adirondack ...

National Historic Landmark - 69th Regiment Armory

National Historic Landmark - 69th Regiment Armory

This formidable brick mass represents a type of building that served in the dual capacity of military facility and social clubhouse for units of the National Guard, particularly the -Fighting 69th- the renowned local ...

National Historic Landmark-Wright Bros Visitor Center

National Historic Landmark - Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center

The Wright Brothers National Memorial Visitor Center is one of four nationally significant buildings built by the National Park Service as part of its Mission 66 program.

Highly acclaimed, it became ...

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

Wolfe, a major American novelist, used his boyhood experiences in this rambling frame house in his novels, the first of which was LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL.

Wolfe's mother bought the house in 1906, and he ...

National Historic Landmark - Union Tavern

National Historic Landmark - Union Tavern

Workshop of Thomas Day, early 19th-century free African-American cabinetmaker who achieved recognition for the superior quality of his craftsmanship.

National Historic Landmark - Single Brothers' House

National Historic Landmark - Single Brothers' House

Restored example of Germanic half-timbered construction (1768-86) in the Moravian planned community of Salem.

Used as a trade school for Moravian boys and as a dormitory for master craftsmen, journeymen, and apprentices.

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National Historic Landmark - Salem Tavern

National Historic Landmark - Salem Tavern

The first brick building in Salem, erected in 1784 by the Moravian congregation that established the town.

The Moravians, a devout Germanic people, set about to construct a planned, congregation town in which the church ...

National Historic Landmark - Reed Gold Mine

National Historic Landmark - Reed Gold Mine

Nuggets found here in 1799 set off the first gold rush in the United States.

North Carolina mines furnished much of the gold minted in Philadelphia before 1829.

The mines were largely depleted by 1860.

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