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Browse historic places by state or historical era.
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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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Little Rock, AR
Arkansas's working statehouse is a grand early-20th-century neoclassical landmark where visitors can explore the architecture, history, and ongoing work of state government.
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North Easton, MA
A former Ames family country estate pairing an early-twentieth-century stone mansion with designed grounds, ponds, and miles of recreational trails.
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Boston, MA
A free museum inside an 1891 firehouse preserves antique apparatus, alarms, artifacts, and stories from Boston’s pioneering professional fire department.
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Cape Canaveral, FL
A 151-foot active lighthouse that links Florida's maritime heritage with the launch complexes of Cape Canaveral.
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Grass Valley, CA
A preserved hard-rock mining complex where visitors can explore the industrial workings, elegant estate, and landscaped grounds of one of California’s richest gold mines.
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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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Delaware City, DE
A Delaware River park preserving remnants of a military post that evolved from Civil War defenses into a major coastal-artillery installation used through World War II.
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Gulf Shores, AL
A massive masonry fortress guarding Mobile Bay that spans the War of 1812 aftermath, the Civil War, and America's later coastal-defense era.
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Staten Island, NY
A centuries-old defensive position overlooking the Narrows preserves imposing harbor fortifications and sweeping views of New York Harbor.
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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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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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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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Little Rock, AR
An immersive museum on Little Rock's historic West Ninth Street preserving and celebrating African American history, culture, entrepreneurship, and achievement in Arkansas.
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Wilmington, DE
A grand early-twentieth-century du Pont estate featuring a 77-room mansion, formal French-inspired gardens, and a collection of vintage automobiles.
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Atlanta, GA
A landmark Atlanta residence that preserves the story of Alonzo and Adrienne Herndon and the rise of one of the city’s most influential Black business families.
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Wilmington, DE
A landmark Brandywine Valley estate where Henry Francis du Pont’s 175-room home, renowned American decorative arts collection, research library, and naturalistic garden come together.
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