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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Hotel Del Coronado

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The largest beach resort on the North American Pacific Coast, this Victorian building is an iconic symbol of San Diego.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: James C. Flood Mansion

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Mansion of James C. Flood, 19th century silver-baron; first brownstone building built west of the Mississippi River; one of the only buildings on Nob Hill to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire; purchased by the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Montgomery Place

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Federal-style house, with expansion designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana: Saint Alphonsus Church

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An image of the Saint Alphonsus Church.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Cape Henry Lighthouse

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First lighthouse to be erected by the Federal Government.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Chicago Board of Trade Building

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Skyscraper designed by Holabird & Root, housed the world's largest trading floor when built in 1930.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Hampton Plantation

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"South Carolina's finest example of a large two-and-a-half frame Georgian plantation house".
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Hancock Clarke House

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This 1737 house was the boyhood home of Revolutionary leader John Hancock, and was where he and Samuel Adams hid from British authorities at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Wa (State): Mount Rainier Natl Park

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The National Park Service's master planning process at this national park in the 1920s marked a significant evolution in the professional management of scenic and recreational lands. The park retains most of the facilities that grew out...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Nicholas Jarrot Mansion

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A mansion built in 1799 for a fur trader.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Ludlow Tent Colony Site

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Site of 1914 miners' strike that culminated in Ludlow Massacre.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: General Rufus Putnam House

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Rufus Putnam (1738-1824) was a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War. After the war he pioneered the settlement of the Northwest Territories, serving as its first Surveyor General. This house, built in the early...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Wyoming: Tom Sun Ranch

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Tom Sun Ranch was a typical medium-sized ranching operation of the open range period in the 1870s-80s. Tom Sun was a French-Canadian cattleman and frontiersman.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Idaho: Weippe Prairie

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Meadow of camas, whose roots were basic food for Nez Perce, where the Lewis and Clark Expedition emerged from Lolo Trail.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Montana: Camp Disappointment

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An image of Camp Disappointment.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Flying Horses Carousel

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This carousel, one of two extant examples of the work of the Charles F. W. Dare Company, is the oldest operating platform carousel in the nation, and may be the oldest of any type (the Flying Horse Carousel of Watch Hill, Rhode Island,...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Arthur H. Compton House

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Home of Nobel-prize-winning physicist who proved light has both wave and particle aspects, the Compton Effect.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: William Blount Mansion

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The home of William Blount from 1792 to his death in 1800. A veteran of the Congress of the Confederation and the Constitutional Convention where he represented North Carolina, Blount then became governor of the Southwest Territory, led...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Washington Dc: Charles Evans Hughes House

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Charles Evans Hughes was a leader in the progressive movement, and 1916 presidential candidate. He held office as Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the United States, as well as multiple executive positions under several Presidents....
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in North Dakota: Fort Union Trading Post

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Most important fur trading post on the upper Missouri until 1867. Visitors included John James Audubon, George Catlin, Father Pierre DeSmet, Sitting Bull, Karl Bodmer, and Jim Bridger.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alaska: Chilkoot Trail and Dyea Site

For Students 9th - 10th
Major access route from the coast to Yukon goldfields in the late 1890s.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Octagon House

For Students 9th - 10th
Plantation owner's home lent to President Madison after the Burning of Washington in 1814.

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