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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Springfield Armory
Until 1968 this site was a part of the nation's first armories and weapons production facilities, and a major military research facility. It was a focal point of the 1787 Shays' Rebellion, a local uprising against oppressive state fiscal...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Paterson Great Falls
A National Natural Landmark and site of mills and mill races originally developed by the Society of Useful Manufacture in late 1700s that are a Civil Engineering Landmark.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in South Carolina: Camden Battlefield
Site of Battle of Camden, British victory in 1780.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Boughton Hill (Gannagaro)
The site of a 17th-century Seneca village known as the Town of Peace and birthplace of the Iroquois Confederacy.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Cole's Hill
Cole's Hill is the site of the burial ground of the Pilgrims. Those who died in the first winter of the Plymouth Colony (1620-21) were buried there.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Rock Island Arsenal
An arsenal and site of a large Union prison camp.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: John Deere Home and Shop
Site of the invention of the first steel plow by John Deere.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico: Glorieta Pass Battlefield
Site of decisive American Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Franklin School
A nineteenth-century school, site of Alexander Graham Bell's experiments with the photophone.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Montana: Pictograph Cave
One of the key archeological sites used in determining the sequence of prehistoric occupation on the northwestern Plains. The deposits indicate occupation from 2600 BC to after 1800 AD.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Edmund Pettus Bridge
This bridge across the Alabama River is noted for being the site of a bloody encounter during a civil rights march in 1965, an event influential in the passage of that year's Voting Rights Act.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Modoc Rock Shelter
An archaeological site, a rock overhang used as shelter during the Archaic period in North America.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Lincoln Boyhood Home
The 16th US President Abraham Lincoln grew up here from 1816 to 1830. The site features the foundation of the original cabin, a replica farm house, the gravesite of Lincoln's mother Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and a memorial building.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Fruitlands
Fruitlands was the site of a short-lived (1843-44) Transcendentalist utopian community founded by Amos Bronson Alcott. The property was acquired by preservationist Clara Endicott Sears in 1910 and opened as the Fruitlands Museum four...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Paul Cuffe Farm
This site was the home and farm of Paul Cuffee (1759-1817), a wealthy colonial-era African-American merchant. Cuffee was a leading advocate for minority rights in Massachusetts, and a promoter and funder of the resettlement of...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Bennington Battlefield
Site of Battle of Bennington, where the American defeat of a British foraging party of dragoons helped assure the Continental Army's pivotal victory at Saratoga.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Valcour Bay
Site of Battle of Valcour Island during the Revolutionary War.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Arizona: Ventana Cave
Archaeological site; has evidence of Native American occupation of the area for the last 4,000 years.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Colorado: Lowry Ruin
Ancient Pueblo Peoples archaeological site from 1060 with a very large kiva.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alaska: Kennecott Mines
Site of discovery of copper in 1900 and subsequent mining activities.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Tennessee: Pinson Mounds
This site, occupied as early as 5000 BCE, consists mainly of mounds constructed during the Middle Woodland Period (ca. 500 B.C. - 500 A.D.).Built here are two temple mounds, one effigy mound, and several other earthworks.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Cahokia Mounds
Largest archaeological site related to Mississippian culture.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Wisconsin: Aztalan
Prehistoric site, now a state park.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Plattsburgh Bay
Site of Battle of Plattsburgh, where U.S. land and naval forces repulsed the last foreign invasion attempt on the northern states during the War of 1812.