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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New Mexico: Petroglyph Natl Monument
Variety of cultural and natural resources including five volcanic cones, hundreds of archeological sites and an estimated 25,000 images carved by native peoples and early Spanish settlers.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New Mexico: Fort Union Natl Monument
Preserves the second of three forts constructed on the site beginning in 1851; also ruins of the third; visible network of ruts from the old Santa Fe Trail.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Arthur D. Little Inc., Building
This unremarkable 1917 office building was the site of the nation's first successful independent consulting laboratory, Arthur D. Little. The company pioneered the idea of commercial laboratories as independent, profit-making businesses.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in California: Point Reyes Lifeboat Station
Last remaining instance of a USLS rail launched lifeboat station, commonly used on the Pacific coast. This site rescued crews from ships that foundered on Point Reyes. It is now protected as part of the Point Reyes National Seashore.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Cowpens Natl Battlefield
Site of Battle of Cowpens in 1781.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Federal Hall Natl Memorial
First capitol of the United States of America; site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789; place where the United States Bill of Rights passed; original building was demolished in the nineteenth century; replaced by the...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Yucca House Natl Monument
Unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Fort Stanwix Natl Monument
Modern reconstruction of colonial fort on original site.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Old Deerfield Historic District
This well-preserved 18th century colonial village was the site of numerous Indian raids, including a famous and well-documented attack in 1704.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Maine: Pentagoet Archeological District
This archaeological site covers extended colonial history dating to the early 17th century. In addition to trade with the native inhabitants, it was also the site of intercolonial (French-English and French-French) conflict until the...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ak: Brooks River Archeological District
An archaeological site located along an ancient beach and modern river. There are twenty separate well preserved sites which have provided a large number of Arctic Small Tool Tradition artifacts.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Spencer Pierce Little House
This house is a rare example of a 17th-century stone house in New England. Relatively unchanged despite additions over the centuries, it is now owned by Historic New England, who operate the site as a farm and museum.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Nc: Guilford Court House Battlefield
Partially preserved site of American Revolutionary War's Battle of Guilford Court House.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Alaska: George C. Thomas Memorial Library
The public library for Fairbanks from its construction in 1909 until the opening of the Noel Wien Public Library in 1977. Site of 1915 meeting between U.S. officials and native Alaskans to settle land claims.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ar: Rohwer Relocation Center Cemetery
Site of a World War II Japanese American internment camp.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
This church was used as a meeting place, training center, and as a departure point for marches during the Civil Rights Movement. It was the site of a bombing by the Ku Klux Klan on September 16, 1963, in which four young girls were...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in North Carolina: Bentonville Battlefield
Site of Battle of Bentonville.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Idaho: Experimental Breeder Reactor No.1
This pioneering nuclear reactor was the site of several milestones in the development of nuclear technology, including the first usable electricity (1951), the first self-sustaining chain reaction using plutonium rather than uranium...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Norfolk County Courthouse
This Greek Revival courthouse was built in 1827 and expanded over the 19th century. It was site of the controversial Sacco-Vanzetti trial in 1921, and has changed little since then.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Wv: West Virginia Independence Hall
Site of 1861-1863 pro-Union government of Virginia.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Wi: University of Wisconsin Dairy Barn
Site of veterinary nutrition research.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Frederick Law Olmsted House
Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), one of America's leading landscape designers of his generation, lived and worked at this site for the last twenty years of his life.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in North Carolina: Town Creek Indian Mound
Archaeological site.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: w.e.b. Dubois Boyhood Homesite
This site contains all that remains of the childhood home of African American intellectual and activist W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). The property, which belonged to his family for over 200 years, is seasonally open to the public.