Falls of the Ohio State Park and Interpretive Center

The Falls of the Ohio is the only rocky obstacle on the 981 mile-long Ohio River, dropping 26-feet over 2.5 miles. The rocks are Middle Devonian limestone, heavily laden with corals, sponges and shells, of which some 600 species have ...

Historic Locust Grove

Two brothers who were instrumental in the expansion of the West—George Rogers Clark and William Clark—are associated with Locust Grove. Locust Grove was the home of their sister, Lucy Clark Croghan, who was the wife of William Croghan. William Croghan ...

Woodrow Wilson House

Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, served two very different terms of office. Elected as a reformer in 1913, he enacted many reforms that are still part of the American political system. Reelected in 1916, in ...

William Howard Taft National Historic Site

William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States, lived in this comfortable house from his birth in 1857 until he went away to college in 1874.  During the years he lived here, he learned to love the ...

Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial

The only memorial to the 26th president of the United States in the nation’s capital is a small island in the Potomac River. An architectural memorial and the restored natural landscape surrounding it together form a living memorial to ...

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

On September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as the 26th and youngest president of the United States in the library of Ansley Wilcox’s fine house in Buffalo. Only 42 years old, he succeeded President William ...

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, bought 155 acres on the fashionable north shore of Long Island in 1880, with Alice Hathaway Lee, the woman he would marry later in the year. She helped plan the ...

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

"I never would have been President if it had not been for my experiences in North Dakota."

-Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, came to the Badlands of what is now North ...

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt, the sickly child who became the energetic 26th president of the United States, was born on this site in 1858 and lived here until he was 14.  The original birthplace was a typical New York brownstone located ...

William Mckinley Tomb

This large circular, domed mausoleum is the final resting place of William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States. McKinley was born in Niles, Ohio but he called Canton home throughout his adult life. He began his career ...