National Historic Landmark-Stono River Slave Rebellion Site

National Historic Landmark-Stono River Slave Rebellion Site

On September 9, 1739, approximately 51 escaped slaves attacked a warehouse located here, killing the guards and seizing the weapons stored within.

The group, led by an Angolan called Jemmy, then set off for freedom ...

National Historic Landmark-Verendrye Site

National Historic Landmark- Verendrye Site

Here, in late March 1743, the Verendryes, the first Europeans to explore the northern plains region of the present United States, secreted a lead plate beneath a pile of stones.

Sixty-one years before Lewis and Clark ...

National Historic Landmark-Fort Pierre Chouteau Site

National Historic Landmark- Fort Pierre Chouteau Site

Perhaps the most significant fur trade/military fort on the western American frontier, Fort Pierre Chouteau was the largest (almost 300' square) and best equipped trading post in the northern Great Plains.

Built in ...

National Historic Landmark-Shiloh Indian Mounds Site

National Historic Landmark- Shiloh Indian Mounds Site

Located in Shiloh National Military Park, the site is the largest extant fortified Mississippian ceremonial mound complex in the Tennessee River Valley.

The site consists of six Late Mississippian temple mounds, one Late Woodland ...

National Historic Landmark-Chucalissa Site

National Historical Landmark- Chucalissa Site

Chucalissa is a Walls Phase (1400-1500) prehistoric mound and plaza complex, and the best known and preserved of such sites in the Central Mississippi River Valley.

The site is known for its excellent preservation of architectural, ...

National Historic Landmark-Lubbock Lake Site

National Historic Landmark - Lubbock Lake Site

Discovered in the 1930s, excavations at the site in Yellow House Canyon have revealed a stratified sequence of human habitation spanning 11,000-12,000 years and providing evidence for occupation during Clovis, Folsom, Plainview, Late Paleo-Indian, ...

National Historic Landmark- Cape Krusenstern Archeological Site

A series of 114 marine beach ridges, formed at an average of perhaps 60 years each since the time of the highest post-glacial sea level, the district contains the remains of peoples who have inhabited these beaches for 5,000 or ...

National Historic Landmark- Birnirk Site

Composed of a group of 16 mounds arranged in rows roughly parallel to the beach, this site is associated with the Birnirk and Thule cultures, both belonging to the North Alaskan branch of the Northern Maritime tradition, the earliest manifestation ...

National Historic Landmark- Bering Expedition Landing Site

Here naturalist Georg W. Steller, surgeon aboard Vitus Bering's ST. PETER, made the first attempts at contact between Europeans and Alaskan natives.

His investigations are among the first contributions to the West's knowledge of the natural and human history of the ...

National Historic Landmark- Anangula Site

This island site was of paramount importance in the peopling of North America and represents the earliest known occupation in the Aleutians.

Archeologists have found evidence of ancient stone core and blade tools which were buried deep beneath many layers ...