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Point Marion, PA
Albert Gallatin’s restored Pennsylvania country estate, interpreting the long-serving Treasury secretary who helped finance the Louisiana Purchase, Lewis and Clark Expedition, and National Road.
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Clarksville, IN
A riverside historic site in Clarksville marking George Rogers Clark’s early-1800s home and the place where Meriwether Lewis and William Clark gathered before their western expedition.
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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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New York, NY
Alexander Hamilton's restored country home, offering an intimate view of the Founder's domestic life and role in shaping the early United States.
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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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Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia’s nationally significant historic park preserving Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, and places central to the founding of the United States.
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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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Kamiah, ID
A roadside interpretive site near Kamiah marking where the Lewis and Clark Expedition spent four weeks among the Nez Perce while waiting for mountain snow to melt in 1806.
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Onawa, IA
An Iowa state park on Blue Lake that preserves an 1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition stop and normally interprets the journey with a full-size keelboat reproduction.
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Hartford, IL
An Illinois historic site at Camp Dubois interpreting the Corps of Discovery's 1803–1804 winter preparations before the Lewis and Clark Expedition headed west.
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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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