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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Liberty Farm
This house belonged to abolitionists and suffragists Abby Kelley Foster (1811-87) and Stephen Symonds Foster (1809-81), and was used by them as a site on the Underground Railroad. The property also featured prominently in the Fosters'...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Wa (State): w.t. Preston (Snagboat)
From 1929 to 1981, the Preston worked clearing rivers of debris, to make them passable to ship traffic. Today the boat is in permanent dry dock, and houses a museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Mississippi: Longwood
Unfinished antebellum house.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Delaware: Aspendale
House and small plantation, intact from 1771.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Maine: Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
Founded in 1783, organized in 1794, this is the last active Shaker community in the United States. A representative collection of Shaker implements and furniture is housed in the buildings.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Abraham Lincoln Home
The only house ever owned by America's 16th president.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: The Parsonage
This 1824 house was home to the father of writer Horatio Alger (1832-99). Alger, a prolific and popular writer of juvenile fiction, frequently summered here.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Saratoga
Gray limestone Georgian house built by Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan, best known for his victory over the British at the Battle of Cowpens in 1781.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: The Hermitage
This plantation was the home of Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death. He built the Greek Revival mansion house in 1819. Jackson served as President of the United States from 1829 to 1837.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Woodlands
The primary residence of author William Gilmore Simms, whose main house was burned in 1865; the remaining wing and several outbuildings constitute a literary landmark.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: Wynnewood
This was the earliest settlement in Middle Tennessee, and remains today as a group of six log buildings at a sulfur spring. The 1828 main house was a stagecoach inn and residence.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Kenworthy Hall
This plantation house was completed in 1860 and is one of the best preserved examples of Richard Upjohn's distinctive asymmetrical Italian villa style. It is the only surviving residential example of Upjohn's Italian villa style that was...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Rose Hill Mansion
Large-scale Greek Revival house.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Montana: Chief Plenty Coups Home
The 2-story house of Crow Nation chief Plenty Coups during 1884-1932, plus a log store and the Plenty Coups Spring.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ma: Boston Manufacturing Company
This building housed the eponymous company, founded in 1813 by businessman Francis Cabot Lowell, engineer Paul Moody, and others, for the manufacture of cotton textiles. At this site the manufacture of textiles under a single roof was...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Old State Capitol
The fifth capitol building of Illinois. Site of Lincoln's House Divided Speech.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Broad Ripple Park Carousel
Originally located at Broad Ripple Village, this carousel was brought to Indiana in 1917 and is one of three surviving Dentzel menagerie carousels. Its animals predate 1900 and it is now housed in The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Wi: Second Fort Crawford Military Hospital
Dates back to first half of 19th century, now houses medical museum.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Dakota: Molstad Village
A fortified prehistoric village of five circular house rings enclosed by a ditch comprises this archaeological site. It represents a transitional period as the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara peoples arose from the mixing of Central Plains...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in New York: Federal Hall Natl Memorial
First capitol of the United States of America; site of George Washington's first inauguration in 1789; place where the United States Bill of Rights passed; original building was demolished in the nineteenth century; replaced by the...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Fort Crailo
Dutch colonial patroonship house; may be place where "Yankee Doodle" was written.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Castle Hill
This early 20th-century country estate is one of the finest of its type. The house was designed by architect David Adler of Chicago, and the landscaping was done by the Olmsted Brothers firm, among others. The estate is owned by The...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Carter's Grove
Georgian country house and plantation near Williamsburg, recently closed and sold to a private owner.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Kentucky: Pine Mountain Settlement School
Brought to a rural community an urban settlement house.