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Browse historic places by state or historical era.
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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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Fall River, MA
A waterfront fleet museum where visitors can board landmark American warships spanning World War II through the Vietnam era.
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St. Simons Island, GA
A compact battlefield overlook marking the 1742 clash that helped end Spain's attempt to seize the British colony of Georgia.
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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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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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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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Lexington, MA
A preserved colonial tavern where Lexington militiamen gathered before confronting British troops on April 19, 1775.
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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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Jacksonville, FL
A Jacksonville preserve where surviving Confederate earthworks and interpretive features reveal the scale of Florida's largest Civil War encampment.
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Lewes, DE
An 18th-century Lewes landmark scarred by the War of 1812 bombardment and now devoted to the town's maritime heritage.
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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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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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Cape Canaveral, FL
A museum within historic launch complexes that preserves the missiles, rockets and facilities of America's early space program.
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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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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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Fort Oglethorpe, GA
A multi-unit national military park preserving the landscapes of the 1863 Battle of Chickamauga and Battles for Chattanooga across northwest Georgia and southeastern Tennessee.
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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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