National Historic Landmark - Fishing Bridge Museum

Fishing Bridge Museum

Built between 1929-31, the architect tried to make his designs harmonize with their surrounding landscapes. They are the best structures of rustic design in the National Park System and they served as the models for hundreds of State ...

National Historic Landmark - Murie Ranch Historic District

Murie Ranch is the most important property associated with Adolph, Olaus and Margaret (Mardy) Murie, whose studies and advocacy changed the way the federal government and scientific community study and manage natural lands and their wildlife populations. The Muries supported ...

National Historic Landmark - Lake Guernsey State Park

This park represents the highest achievements of the collaboration between the NPS and the Bureau of Reclamation in developing what became known as "recreation areas" around reservoirs built in Western states.

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National Historic Landmark - Medicine Wheel

This represents one of the most interesting and mysterious remains of late period aboriginal culture. Its builders and function are unknown. Composed of loose, irregularly shaped, whitish flat stones placed in a circle, it is apparently little modified since its ...

National Historic Landmark - Jackson Lake Lodge

Jackson Lake Lodge, completed in 1955, represents a break with the traditional rustic style of architecture used in the National Park Service. Designed by Gilbert Stanley Underwood, who previously had designed the Ahwahnee, Bryce Canon and North Rim Grand Canyon ...

National Historic Landmark - Independence Rock

Independence Rock is a well-known natural landmark on the Oregon Trail, 1900 feet long and 850 feet wide. Numerous travelers painted, carved, or wrote their names on its surface over the years.

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National Historic Landmark - Horner Site

This site has yielded evidence that several distinctive weapons and tools found in the Plains region were all part of a single prehistoric flint tool industry of Early Hunter origin. Initial age estimates place occupation of this site at approximately ...

National Historic Landmark - Heart Mountain Relocation Center

The Heart Mountain Relocation Center is nationally significant as one of ten relocation centers built by the War Relocation Authority for incarcerating Japanese Americans during World War II. Executive Order 9066 authorized the military to create restricted zones from which ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Yellowstone

Fort Yellowstone was built by the army to administer and protect the natural resources of Yellowstone, America's first national park. The army remained in the park from 1888 to 1918, longer than in any other park. At Yellowstone, the soldiers ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Phil Kearny

Established in 1866 to protect travelers along the Bozeman Trail, the fort was under virtual siege (1866-68) in the "Red Cloud War" as Sioux groups fought successfully to prevent White invasion of their hunting grounds. This was one of the ...