Areas preserved for their historic value honor important persons or events in the history of the United States. They include forts, bridges, dams, canals, homes, farms, and more.

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Abraham Lincoln Birthplace (Hodgenville, Kentucky) a memorial to the 16th President on the site where he is believed to have been born

Adams (Quincy, Massachusetts) the home of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams and their descendants

Allegheny Portage Railroad (Pennsylvania) structures associated with what was once the most vital link between the Pennsylvania Canal System and the West

Andersonville (Andersonville, Georgia) Civil War prisoner-of-war camp

Bent's Old Fort (near La Junta, Colorado) reconstructed Plains outpost

Boston African American (Boston, Massachusetts) structures related to pre-Civil War black history

Brown v. Board of Education (Topeka, Kansas) Monroe Elementary School, one of four segregated schools at the center of the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case

Carl Sandburg Home (Flat Rock, North Carolina) home of the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet

Charles Pinckney (Mount Pleasant, South Carolina) farm of an early American statesman

Christiansted (St. Croix, Virgin Islands) commemorates a Danish colony

Clara Barton (Glen Echo, Maryland) home of American Red Cross founder

Edgar Allan Poe (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) home of the writer

Edison (west Orange, New Jersey) inventor's home and laboratory

Eisenhower (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) the only home ever owned by the 24th President

Eleanor Roosevelt (Hyde Park, New York) personal retreat of the former First Lady

Eugene O'Neill (Danville, California) playwright's home

Ford's Theatre (Washington, D.C.) the site of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, the house where he died, and a museum

Fort Bowie (Bowie, Arizona) focal point of operations against Geronimo and the Apaches

Fort Davis (Fort Davis, Texas) key frontier outpost in West Texas

Fort Laramie (Laramie, Wyoming) military post on the Oregon Trail

Fort Larned (Larned, Kansas) military post on the Santa Fe Trail

Fort Point (San Francisco, California) West Coast fortification

Fort Raleigh (Roanoke Island, North Carolina) first attempted English settlement in North America

Fort Scott (Fort Scott, Kansas) commemorates U.S. frontier of the 1840's and 1850's

Fort Smith (Fort Smith, Arkansas) active post 1817-1890

Fort Union Trading Post (near Bainville, Montana) principal fur-trading post on the Upper Missouri, 1829-1867

Fort Vancouver (Vancouver, Washington) headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1825 and early political seat

Frederick Douglass (Washington, D.C.) home of black abolitionist, author, lecturer

Frederick Law Olmsted (Brookline, Massachusetts) home of city planner

Friendship Hill (Point Marion, Pennsylvania) home of Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under Presidents Jefferson and Madison

Golden Spike (Promontory, Utah) where the final spike of the Transcontinental Railroad was drive

Grant-Kohrs Ranch (Deer Lodge, Montana) part of 19th-century ranch

Hampton (Towson, Maryland) 18th-century Georgian mansion

Harry S. Truman (Independence, Missouri) home of President Harry Truman after 1919

Herbert Hoover (West Branch, Iowa) birthplace and home of the 31st President

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt (Hyde Park, New York) birthplace and home of the 32nd President

Hopewell Furnace (near Elverson, Pennsylvania) 19th-century iron-making village

Hubbell Trading Post (Ganado, Arizona) still active

James A. Garfield (Mentor, Ohio) home of the 20th President

Jimmy Carter (Plains, Georgia) birthplace and home of the 39th President

John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Brookline, Massachusetts) birthplace and childhood home of the 35th President

John Muir (Martinez, California) home of conservationist and writer

Knife River Indian Villages (Stanton, North Dakota) remnants of villages last occupied by Hidatsa and Mandan tribes

Lincoln Home (Springfield, Illinois) home of the 16th President

Longfellow (Cambridge, Massachusetts) General George Washington's headquarters during the Siege of Boston, 1775-1776, and later the home of author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Maggie L. Walker (Richmond, Virginia) home of black leader and bank president

Manzanar (Lone Pine, California) Japanese-American internment camp during World War II

Martin Luther King, Jr. (Atlanta, Georgia) birthplace, grave, and church of the civil rights leader

Martin Van Buren (Kinderhook, New York) home of the 8th President

Mary McLeod Bethune Council House (Washington, D.C.) leader in the black women's movement

Nicodemus (Nicodemus, Kansas) only remaining western town established by African-Americans during Reconstruction

Ninety Six (Ninety Six, South Carolina) colonial trading village

Palo Alto Battlefield (Palo Alto, Texas) scene of the first battle of the Mexican War

Pennsylvania Avenue (Washington, D.C.) the avenue that connects the Capitol and the White House, and several adjacent structures

Puukohola Helau (Kawaihae, Hawaii) ruins of a temple built by King Kamehameha

Sagamore Hill (Oyster Bay, New York) home of the 26th President from 1885 to his death

Saint-Gaudens (Cornish, New Hampshire) home, studio, and gardens of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens

Saint Paul's Church (New York, New York) site associated with John Peter Zenger's "freedom of the press" trial

Salem Maritime (Salem, Massachusetts) the only port that was never seized by the British during the Revolutionary War

San Juan (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 16th-century Spanish fortifications

Saugus Iron Works (Saugus, Massachusetts) reconstructed 17th-century ironworks

Springfield Armory (Springfield, Massachusetts) small-arms manufacturing center for almost 200 years

Steamtown (Scranton, Pennsylvania) railyard, roadhouse, repair shops of former Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace (New York, New York) reconstructed brownstone

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural (Buffalo, New York) Wilcox House, where he took the oath of office in 1901

Thomas Stone (Port Tobacco, Maryland) home of a signer of the Declaration of Independence

Tuskegee Institute (Tuskegee, Alabama) college founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881

Ulysses S. Grant (St. Louis, Missouri) pre-Civil War home of the 18th President

Vanderbilt Mansion (Hyde Park, New York) mansion of 19th-century financier

Washita Battlefield (Cheyenne, Oklahoma) scene of November 27, 1868, battle between Plains tribes and the U.S. Army

Weir Farm (Wilton, Connecticut) home and studio of impressionist painter J. Alden Weir

Whitman Mission (Walla Walla, Washington) site where Dr. and Mrs. Marcus Whitman ministered to the Indians

William Howard Taft (Cincinnati, Ohio) birthplace and childhood home of the 27th President

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This page was last updated on 08/29/2017.