National Historic Landmark -Beginning U.S. Public Land Survey

National Historic Landmark -Beginning Point of the U.S. Public Land Survey

This is the point from which a rectangular-grid land survey system was established under the Ordinance of 1785, which provided for administration and subdivision of land in the Old ...

National Historic Landmark - Baum-Taft House

National Historic Landmark - Baum-Taft House

One of the earliest grand mansions with Federalist detail in Ohio, this single story structure (c. 1820) was formerly the home of Charles P. Taft, half-brother of President Taft.

In 1908, William Howard Taft accepted ...

National Historic Landmark - Adena

National Historic Landmark - Adena

Built between 1806 and 1807, Adena is an outstanding example of the domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, generally acknowledged as the first professional architect in the United States.

Situated on three hundred acres and retaining ...

National Historic Landmark-Wheelock Academy

National Historic Landmark- The Wheelock Academy

The Wheelock Academy was the prototype for tribal school systems established by the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory.

Begun in 1832 as a mission school, it was named for the founder of Dartmouth ...

National Historic Landmark-Washita Battlefield

National Historic Landmark- Washita Battlefield

Washita Battlefield protects and interprets the site of the Southern Cheyenne village of Peace Chief Black Kettle that was attacked by the 7th U.S. Cavalry under Lt. Col. George A. Custer just before dawn on November ...

National Historic Landmark-Price Tower

National Historic Landmark-Price Tower

The Price Tower is nationally significant as one of two completed designs for high-rise buildings during Frank Lloyd Wright's long career, and the only one that might be appropriately termed a skyscraper.

It was one of a ...

National Historic Landmark-Sequoyah's Cabin

National Historic Landmark-Sequoyah's Cabin

This is a frontier house of logs, occupied (1829-44) by Sequoyah (George Gist), the teacher who in 1821 invented a syllabary which made it possible to write and read the Cherokee language. The giant California sequoia trees ...

National Historic Landmark-Murrell Home

National Historic Landmark-Murrell Home

A 2-story frame dwelling, built in 1845 near the Cherokee capital by Virginian George Murrell, who married the niece of Cherokee leader John Ross.

It reflects the Anglicized ways adopted by some Cherokees in their community of ...

National Historic Landmark-Marland Mansion

National Historic Landmark-Ernest Whitworth Marland Mansion

Home (1928-40) of an entrepreneur who contributed greatly to the development of the petroleum industry in the United States. By the mid-1920s, his was the largest independent oil company in the country.

Courtesy National Park Service ...

National Historic Landmark-Guthrie Historic District

National Historic Landmark-Guthrie Historic District

Comprising the commercial core of the city of Guthrie, Oklahoma, the historic district contains mostly two- and three-story commercial buildings made of red brick and/or sandstone constructed between 1889 and 1910.

This outstanding collection of late ...