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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Paul Cuffe Farm
This site was the home and farm of Paul Cuffee (1759-1817), a wealthy colonial-era African-American merchant. Cuffee was a leading advocate for minority rights in Massachusetts, and a promoter and funder of the resettlement of...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Bennington Battlefield
Site of Battle of Bennington, where the American defeat of a British foraging party of dragoons helped assure the Continental Army's pivotal victory at Saratoga.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Valcour Bay
Site of Battle of Valcour Island during the Revolutionary War.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arizona: Ventana Cave
Archaeological site; has evidence of Native American occupation of the area for the last 4,000 years.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Lowry Ruin
Ancient Pueblo Peoples archaeological site from 1060 with a very large kiva.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alaska: Kennecott Mines
Site of discovery of copper in 1900 and subsequent mining activities.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: Pinson Mounds
This site, occupied as early as 5000 BCE, consists mainly of mounds constructed during the Middle Woodland Period (ca. 500 B.C. - 500 A.D.).Built here are two temple mounds, one effigy mound, and several other earthworks.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Cahokia Mounds
Largest archaeological site related to Mississippian culture.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin: Aztalan
Prehistoric site, now a state park.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Plattsburgh Bay
Site of Battle of Plattsburgh, where U.S. land and naval forces repulsed the last foreign invasion attempt on the northern states during the War of 1812.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Liberty Farm
This house belonged to abolitionists and suffragists Abby Kelley Foster (1811-87) and Stephen Symonds Foster (1809-81), and was used by them as a site on the Underground Railroad. The property also featured prominently in the Fosters'...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana: Fort Jackson
Fort Jackson was constructed between 1822 and 1832. In April 1862, the fort was the site of the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the decisive battle for control of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky: Dr. Ephraim Mc Dowell House
Site of first successful ovariotomy, done by Ephraim McDowell.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Gardner Pingree House
Salem merchant John Gardner had this Federalist-style house built in 1804-05 by Samuel McIntire. It was the site of a notorious murder in 1841 that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. It is now owned by the Peabody Essex...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Vermont: Mount Independence
Site of Fort Independence, an American Revolutionary War fortification built opposite Fort Ticonderoga.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Ivy Green
This site is where deaf and blind Helen Keller was born and learned to communicate, with the aid of her teacher and constant companion, Anne Sullivan.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Farm Creek Section
Site of exposed geological strata.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania: Drake Oil Well
Edwin L. Drake struck oil here, the site of the world's first successful oil well.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Ashburton House
House on Lafayette Square that was site of 10 months of U.S.-British negotiations leading to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. This settled U.S.-Canada border disputes and ended the Aroostook War.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Starved Rock
A Sandstone butte overlooking the Illinois River, purportedly the site of a massacre of the Illinois Confederation.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Georgia: Etowah Mounds
Three main mounds at the site; three lesser known mounds; inhabited from about 1000-1550 A.D. by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Old Main, Knox College
Best-preserved site of one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Stony Point Battlefield
Site of Anthony Wayne's victory over the British in the Battle of Stony Point.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Balboa Park
1,200 acre (4.9 square kilometers) urban cultural complex in San Diego. Reserved in 1855, it is one of the oldest public recreation sites in the US. It includes open areas and vegetation as well as museums, theaters, gardens, shops,...