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Catasauqua, PA
A restored 1768 stone home of Pennsylvania signer and ironmaster George Taylor, preserved as a National Historic Landmark in Catasauqua.
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St. Augustine, FL
A free museum and cultural center occupying a site that served St. Augustine's colonial governments beginning in the late sixteenth century.
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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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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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Jekyll Island, GA
One of Georgia's oldest surviving tabby structures, built in 1743 for colonial military leader William Horton on Jekyll Island.
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Plymouth, MA
A rare surviving 17th-century Plymouth home associated directly with Mayflower passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley and their son Jabez.
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New Orleans, LA
The ceremonial heart of the French Quarter, where the 1803 transfer of Louisiana to the United States is remembered amid an iconic landscaped public square.
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Dover, DE
The plantation home of statesman John Dickinson, interpreted today through both his founding-era legacy and the lives of the free and enslaved people connected to the property.
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Robeline, LA
An archaeological landmark where an eighteenth-century Spanish presidio and mission once served as the capital of Spanish Texas amid French, Spanish, and Caddo interaction.
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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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St. Augustine, FL
A historic Catholic mission and pilgrimage site commemorating St. Augustine's 1565 founding and one of the nation's earliest Marian devotions.
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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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Boston, MA
Boston's oldest surviving church building, renowned for the two lanterns displayed from its steeple on the eve of the American Revolution.
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Boston, MA
The 1729 meeting house where thousands debated British taxation before the gathering spilled into the streets and became the Boston Tea Party.
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Boston, MA
Boston’s 1713 seat of royal government, overlooking the Boston Massacre site and the balcony where independence was proclaimed to the city.
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Boston, MA
The compact 17th-century North End home where Paul Revere lived during the years surrounding his famous revolutionary ride.
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Plymouth, MA
A landmark Plymouth museum founded in 1824 that preserves an exceptional collection of original Mayflower-era objects and interprets both English and Wampanoag histories.
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Plymouth, MA
An immersive living-history museum exploring 17th-century Wampanoag and English life through recreated communities, historic interpretation, Mayflower II, and a working grist mill.
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