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St. Augustine, FL
The oldest masonry fortification in the continental United States, built by Spain to defend St. Augustine and its Atlantic approaches.
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Bushnell, FL
A preserved 1835 battlefield where United States troops and Seminole fighters clashed at the opening of the Second Seminole War.
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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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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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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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Flagler Beach, FL
Atmospheric coquina ruins preserve the remains of a major antebellum sugar plantation destroyed during the Second Seminole War.
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Orofino, ID
A Nez Perce National Historical Park site near Orofino where the Nez Perce helped the Lewis and Clark Expedition build dugout canoes for the westward journey in 1805.
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New Orleans, LA
New Orleans’ historic Catholic cathedral on Jackson Square, rooted in the city’s 18th-century colonial era and still active as a place of worship.
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Rossville, GA
A preserved Cherokee-associated log house in Rossville connected to Principal Chief John Ross and the history that culminated in Cherokee removal along the Trail of Tears.
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Rome, GA
The National Historic Landmark home of Cherokee leader Major Ridge, interpreting the Ridge family, the Treaty of New Echota, and the difficult choices surrounding Cherokee removal.
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Chatsworth, GA
An exceptionally preserved early nineteenth-century Cherokee mansion that interprets the Vann family, Cherokee life, enslavement, and the pressures that preceded forced removal.
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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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New York, NY
A National Park Service memorial at the birthplace of the federal government and the site of George Washington's first presidential inauguration.
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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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Thonotosassa, FL
A reconstructed Second Seminole War fort that protected a vital Hillsborough River bridge and military supply route.
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Ocala, FL
A reconstructed frontier fort in Ocala interpreting the Second Seminole War, federal Indian removal policy and the origins of the surrounding community.
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Fort Smith, AR
A frontier-era National Park Service site where a military post, federal court, jail, and gallows illuminate U.S. expansion, Indian Territory, and Judge Isaac C. Parker's court.
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Framingham, MA
A three-building historic campus on Framingham Centre Common preserving more than four centuries of community history.
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