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Milledgeville, GA
A landmark Greek Revival mansion in Milledgeville that served as Georgia’s executive residence from 1839 to 1868 and witnessed the state’s antebellum, Civil War, and early Reconstruction history.
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Savannah, GA
A richly detailed Gothic Revival landmark on Savannah’s Madison Square that became General William T. Sherman’s headquarters after the March to the Sea.
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Little Rock, AR
A preserved downtown Little Rock city block where restored frontier-era buildings, living history, and Arkansas-made art reveal the state's early history and creative traditions.
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Spanish Fort, AL
A wooded Alabama park preserving an early river town, ancient Indigenous sites, and the battlefield of one of the Civil War's final major engagements.
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Dauphin Island, AL
A remarkably preserved coastal fort on Dauphin Island that played a central role in the Civil War's Battle of Mobile Bay.
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Washington, AR
A remarkably preserved Arkansas town where historic buildings, museums, and living-history programs bring the state's nineteenth-century story to life.
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Yorktown, VA
A preserved Virginia port town where colonial commerce, the 1781 American victory at Yorktown, and later Civil War history remain visible along historic streets and the York River.
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Rehoboth Beach, DE
A restored 19th-century U.S. Life-Saving Service station that brings the dangerous work of Delaware's coastal surfmen and shipwreck rescuers to life.
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Leola, AR
A Saline River battlefield park preserving the site of the April 30, 1864 engagement that enabled Frederick Steele's Union army to continue its retreat toward Little Rock.
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Kennesaw, GA
A major National Park Service battlefield preserving miles of Civil War earthworks, historic landscapes, museum exhibits, and hiking trails from the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.
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St. Augustine, FL
A museum in the former Excelsior High School preserving more than four centuries of African American history in St. Augustine.
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Nevada City, CA
A dramatic Gold Rush landscape where immense hydraulic-mining cliffs, a preserved mining town, and forest trails reveal both the ambition and environmental cost of nineteenth-century mining.
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Fordyce, AR
A compact Civil War battlefield park marking the April 25, 1864 Confederate victory that shattered a Union supply convoy and helped force the abandonment of Camden.
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Cambridge, MA
America’s pioneering garden cemetery combines nationally significant history, notable monuments, and a richly planted landscape overlooking Greater Boston.
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Haverhill, MA
A hands-on museum tracing the evolution of printing, typography, graphic arts, and communication technology.
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Natchitoches, LA
A walkable 33-block riverfront district preserving more than three centuries of French, Spanish, Creole, American, and regional history in Louisiana's oldest permanent settlement.
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New Castle, DE
A landmark 1732 courthouse where Delaware declared its separation from Pennsylvania and Great Britain and where later legal battles over the Underground Railroad unfolded.
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Little Rock, AR
Arkansas's original state capitol preserves a landmark Greek Revival building that witnessed statehood, secession, political conflict, and generations of public life.
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