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Browse historic places by state or historical era.
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Boston, MA
An immersive waterfront museum uses costumed interpreters, replica ships, interactive exhibits, and an original tea chest to recreate the Boston Tea Party.
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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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Boston, MA
Boston’s historic market and meeting hall has served for nearly three centuries as a stage for debates over liberty, abolition, suffrage, labor, and civic life.
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Lexington, MA
The historic common where Lexington militia and British regulars exchanged the opening gunfire of the American Revolution on April 19, 1775.
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Yorktown, VA
A museum and living-history site in Yorktown exploring the American Revolution through artifacts, immersive galleries, films, a Continental Army camp, and an 18th-century farm.
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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 circular pavement marker outside the Old State House identifies the place where British soldiers killed five colonists on March 5, 1770.
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Lexington, MA
A preserved colonial tavern where Lexington militiamen gathered before confronting British troops on April 19, 1775.
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Virginia Beach, VA
A National Park Service memorial in Virginia Beach marking the English colonists' 1607 first landing and interpreting the 1781 Battle of the Capes.
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St. Augustine, FL
An immersive living-history attraction that brings St. Augustine's centuries of Spanish and British colonial life to life through demonstrations and reconstructed settings.
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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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Midway, GA
Preserved Revolutionary War earthworks overlooking the Medway River, remembered for the defiant 1778 reply, “Come and take it!”
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Hull, MA
A hilltop harbor-defense site preserving military remains from the American Revolution through the world-war era.
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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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New York, NY
A Revolutionary-era museum inside the historic tavern where George Washington bade farewell to his officers in 1783.
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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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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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