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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Pemaquid Archeological Site
This site, located on the central coast of Maine, encompasses fortifications and colonial communities dating back before King William's War in the 1690s.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Yuchi Town Site
This archaeological site was occupied by the Apalachicola and Yuchi tribes. During the 17th century, the Apalachicola tribe allied with the Spanish in Florida against the English in Carolina and were ultimately destroyed as a culture....
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota: Arzberger Site
Archaeological site of a fortified village.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arkansas: Camden Expedition Sites
Camden Expedition Civil War battle sites: Confederate State Capitol, Elkin's Ferry Battleground, Fort Southerland, Fort Lookout, Jenkins' Ferry Battlefield, Marks' Mills Battlefield, Poison Spring Battlefield, Prairie d'Ane Battlefield,...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alaska: Ipiutak Site
The type site for the Ipiutak culture.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Texas: Dealey Plaza Historic District
Site of Kennedy assassination and surrounding buildings that are rumored to have held additional assassins.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arizona: Wupatki National Monument
Settlement sites built by the Ancient Pueblo Peoples; Sinagua, Cohonina, and Kayenta Anasazi.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Rhode Island: Fort Adams
Site of fortifications since 1799, most of the extant facilities date to the mid-19th century. Fort Adams was the principal defense site for Narragansett Bay.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington (State): Marmes Rockshelter
Despite being the fact that human remains at the site are the oldest that have been found in Washington, and at the time of excavation, the oldest set of remains found in North America, the site was submerged under water after the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Philipsburg Manor House
Historic house, water mill, and trading site; at one time, one of the largest slave holdings in the colonial North.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Springfield Armory
Until 1968 this site was a part of the nation's first armories and weapons production facilities, and a major military research facility. It was a focal point of the 1787 Shays' Rebellion, a local uprising against oppressive state fiscal...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Paterson Great Falls
A National Natural Landmark and site of mills and mill races originally developed by the Society of Useful Manufacture in late 1700s that are a Civil Engineering Landmark.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Camden Battlefield
Site of Battle of Camden, British victory in 1780.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Boughton Hill (Gannagaro)
The site of a 17th-century Seneca village known as the Town of Peace and birthplace of the Iroquois Confederacy.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Cole's Hill
Cole's Hill is the site of the burial ground of the Pilgrims. Those who died in the first winter of the Plymouth Colony (1620-21) were buried there.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Rock Island Arsenal
An arsenal and site of a large Union prison camp.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: John Deere Home and Shop
Site of the invention of the first steel plow by John Deere.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico: Glorieta Pass Battlefield
Site of decisive American Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Franklin School
A nineteenth-century school, site of Alexander Graham Bell's experiments with the photophone.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Montana: Pictograph Cave
One of the key archeological sites used in determining the sequence of prehistoric occupation on the northwestern Plains. The deposits indicate occupation from 2600 BC to after 1800 AD.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Edmund Pettus Bridge
This bridge across the Alabama River is noted for being the site of a bloody encounter during a civil rights march in 1965, an event influential in the passage of that year's Voting Rights Act.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Modoc Rock Shelter
An archaeological site, a rock overhang used as shelter during the Archaic period in North America.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Lincoln Boyhood Home
The 16th US President Abraham Lincoln grew up here from 1816 to 1830. The site features the foundation of the original cabin, a replica farm house, the gravesite of Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and a memorial building.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Fruitlands
Fruitlands was the site of a short-lived (1843-44) Transcendentalist utopian community founded by Amos Bronson Alcott. The property was acquired by preservationist Clara Endicott Sears in 1910 and opened as the Fruitlands Museum four...