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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: National Historic Landmarks in Louisiana: Fort Jackson
Fort Jackson was constructed between 1822 and 1832. In April 1862, the fort was the site of the Battle of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, the decisive battle for control of New Orleans during the American Civil War.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky: Dr. Ephraim Mc Dowell House
Site of first successful ovariotomy, done by Ephraim McDowell.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Massachusetts: Gardner Pingree House
Salem merchant John Gardner had this Federalist-style house built in 1804-05 by Samuel McIntire. It was the site of a notorious murder in 1841 that inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe. It is now owned by the Peabody Essex...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Vermont: Mount Independence
Site of Fort Independence, an American Revolutionary War fortification built opposite Fort Ticonderoga.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Alabama: Ivy Green
This site is where deaf and blind Helen Keller was born and learned to communicate, with the aid of her teacher and constant companion, Anne Sullivan.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Farm Creek Section
Site of exposed geological strata.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania: Drake Oil Well
Edwin L. Drake struck oil here, the site of the world's first successful oil well.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Ashburton House
House on Lafayette Square that was site of 10 months of U.S.-British negotiations leading to the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. This settled U.S.-Canada border disputes and ended the Aroostook War.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Starved Rock
A Sandstone butte overlooking the Illinois River, purportedly the site of a massacre of the Illinois Confederation.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Georgia: Etowah Mounds
Three main mounds at the site; three lesser known mounds; inhabited from about 1000-1550 A.D. by Native Americans of the Mississippian culture.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Illinois: Old Main, Knox College
Best-preserved site of one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New York: Stony Point Battlefield
Site of Anthony Wayne's victory over the British in the Battle of Stony Point.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Balboa Park
1,200 acre (4.9 square kilometers) urban cultural complex in San Diego. Reserved in 1855, it is one of the oldest public recreation sites in the US. It includes open areas and vegetation as well as museums, theaters, gardens, shops,...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Virginia: Sayler's Creek Battlefield
Sites of Battle of Sayler's Creek on April 6, 1865, where 1/4 of Lee's army was cut off, three days before surrender at Appomattox.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Hawaii: South Point Complex
Site of one of the earliest Hawaiian settlements and Southernmost point in the United States.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Nebraska: Father Flanagan's Boys' Home
Site of Father Flanagan's original boy's home.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Red Bank Battlefield
Site of the Battle of Red Bank on October 22, 1777.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Pennsylvania: Meadowcroft Rockshelter
Archaeological site associated with Native Americans.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota: Soudan Iron Mine
The Soudan Underground Mine is known as Minnesota's oldest, deepest, and richest iron mine, and now hosts the Soudan Underground Laboratory. In the late 19th century, prospectors searching for gold in northern Minnesota discovered...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Coso Rock Art District
Over 20,000 Indian petroglyphs are located in this NHLD, which also incorporates two earlier NHLs Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons. The site is located within Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Indiana: Angel Mounds
From AD 1000 to 1600, a town on this site was home to people of the Middle Mississippian culture. They built many mounds at this 100-acre (0.40 km2) community.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Hampshire: Mount Washington Hotel
Huge spa hotel in the White Mountains; site of 1944 Bretton Woods international monetary conference.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Kentucky: Perryville Battlefield
Site of largest battle in Kentucky during the American Civil War.