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St. Augustine, FL
A preserved Spanish coquina watchtower reached by ferry that guarded St. Augustine's vulnerable southern water approach.
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Richmond Hill, GA
A scenic park on the Ogeechee River preserving one of the Confederacy’s best-preserved earthwork forts and the site where Sherman’s March to the Sea reached its final major military objective.
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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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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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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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Natchitoches, LA
A carefully researched reconstruction of the French colonial fort that protected Natchitoches and anchored trade on the contested frontier between French Louisiana and Spanish Texas.
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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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Fort Worth, TX
A preserved livestock district where historic buildings, rodeo traditions, and twice-daily longhorn cattle drives keep Fort Worth's Western heritage alive.
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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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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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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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Milledgeville, GA
A landmark Greek Revival mansion in Milledgeville that served as Georgia’s executive residence from 1839 to 1868 and witnessed the state’s antebellum, Civil War, and early Reconstruction history.
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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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Savannah, GA
A richly detailed Gothic Revival landmark on Savannah’s Madison Square that became General William T. Sherman’s headquarters after the March to the Sea.
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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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