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Browse historic places by state or historical era.
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Gettysburg, PA
A preserved Civil War battlefield where the Union victory at Gettysburg and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address reshaped the nation's course.
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Wilmington, DE
A riverside industrial museum preserving the original DuPont powder works, working machinery, workers' community, and the du Pont family's first American home.
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Cartersville, GA
A preserved Civil War battlefield and railroad pass with original earthworks, trenches, monuments, and connections to both the Great Locomotive Chase and the 1864 Battle of Allatoona.
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Appomattox, VA
A preserved Virginia village where Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865.
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Chatham, MA
A preserved 1752 sea captain’s home and expanded museum campus interpreting centuries of Chatham and Cape Cod history.
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Boston, MA
A free museum inside an 1891 firehouse preserves antique apparatus, alarms, artifacts, and stories from Boston’s pioneering professional fire department.
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Brooklyn, NY
A landmark New York shipyard where generations of workers built celebrated American warships and where historic industry continues within a modern manufacturing campus.
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Jacksonville, FL
A Jacksonville preserve where surviving Confederate earthworks and interpretive features reveal the scale of Florida's largest Civil War encampment.
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Cape Canaveral, FL
A 151-foot active lighthouse that links Florida's maritime heritage with the launch complexes of Cape Canaveral.
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Fort Oglethorpe, GA
A multi-unit national military park preserving the landscapes of the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga and Battles for Chattanooga across northwest Georgia and southeastern Tennessee.
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Odessa, DE
A remarkably documented 1770s Georgian mansion in historic Odessa with deep connections to Delaware’s colonial life and the Underground Railroad.
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Grass Valley, CA
A preserved hard-rock mining complex where visitors can explore the industrial workings, elegant estate, and landscaped grounds of one of California’s richest gold mines.
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Essex, MA
A working maritime museum on a historic Essex River shipyard that preserves the town’s renowned wooden shipbuilding tradition.
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Fernandina Beach, FL
A coastal state park centered on a remarkably preserved nineteenth-century fort interpreted as it appeared during the Civil War.
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Delaware City, DE
A Civil War-era island fortress reached by ferry from Delaware City, where living-history programs interpret coastal defense and the imprisonment of Confederate soldiers.
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Richmond Hill, GA
A scenic park on the Ogeechee River preserving one of the Confederacy’s best-preserved earthwork forts and the site where Sherman’s March to the Sea reached its final major military objective.
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Gulf Shores, AL
A massive masonry fortress guarding Mobile Bay that spans the War of 1812 aftermath, the Civil War, and America's later coastal-defense era.
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Staten Island, NY
A centuries-old defensive position overlooking the Narrows preserves imposing harbor fortifications and sweeping views of New York Harbor.
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