Joseph Green House

Mississippi native Joseph Green settled in Orange Park around 1886, acquiring property in the African American community along McIntosh Avenue. Green constructed the 1,250 square foot, two-story house as his residence around 1893. The house remained in the Green family ...

Joan White

Joan White lived in Guantanamo Bay when the Navy stationed her husband there from 1989-1991.

Jonathan Dickinson State Park

Jonathan Dickinson, a Quaker merchant, and his family and crew were shipwrecked near Hobe Sound in 1696 and walked the coast to St. Augustine. Dickinson's journal describes encounters with Native Americans and Spanish settlers along the coast and provides a ...

National Historic Landmark- Chief Joseph Battleground of Bears Paw

Site of the battle in which Chief Joseph and more than 400 Nez Perce Indians surrendered to the United States Army (1877). The Bear Paw surrender signaled the close of the Nez Perces' existence as an "independent Indian people." Henceforth, ...

Josiah T. Walls

Born in 1842 to slave parents in Winchester, Va., little is known of Josiah T. Walls' early life. After a short term of Confederate service, he enlisted in the Third Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops in 1863. Transferred to Picolata on ...

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 - John Ballantine House

National Historic Landmark - John Ballantine House

One of the very few completely documented 19th-century -palaces--, this building (1884) vividly evokes a picture of Victorian life of the wealthy.

Built for a member of the Ballantine family, whose brewery in Newark was ...

National Historic Landmark - Watrous (La Junta)

National Historic Landmark - Watrous (La Junta)

Here, at the settlement of La Junta de los Rios Mara y Sapello, the Mountain and Cimarron Cutoff routes of the Santa Fe Trail joined.

Wagon trains organized here before entering hostile Indian territory. In ...

National Historic Landmark - San Jose De Gracia Church

National Historic Landmark - San Jose De Gracia Church

Erected between 1760 and 1776, this is one of the best-preserved and most representative examples of the Spanish Colonial churches in New Mexico.

Interior decoration includes paintings on carved wooden reredos and sidewalls ...

National Historic Landmark- Carlsbad Irrigation Project

National Historical Landmark- Carlsbad Irrigation Project

Carlsbad was one of the most extensive private irrigation projects in the American West, where adequate water supply has always been a concern.

In the 1880s, inhabitants of the Pecos Valley constructed several stone dams to ...