Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic SitePennsylvania
The first railroad to circumvent the Allegheny Mountains. Marked the first time that there was a direct route between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Amache National Historic SiteColorado
One of ten incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to unjustly incarcerate over 10,000 people, mostly Japanese American citizens, from 1942-1945.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Andersonville National Historic SiteGeorgia
The Camp Sumter military prison at Andersonville was one of the largest Confederate prisons during the Civil War. More than 45,000 Union soldiers were confined here and almost 13,000 died.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Andrew Johnson National Historic SiteTennessee
Following President Lincoln's assassination and during attempts to reunify a nation torn by civil war. The site interprets the life and legacy of the 17th President.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Bent's Old Fort National Historic SiteColorado
Features a reconstructed 1840s adobe fur trading post on the Santa Fe Trail where traders, trappers, travelers, and Indian tribes came together for trade.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 April👨👩
Bessemer Bend National Historic SiteWyoming
One of the places where early pioneers forded the North Platte River. The Red Buttes Pony Express station and an Overland Stage station also were located in this vicinity.
Date Of First Visit: Visiting Soon
Blackwell School National Historic SiteTexas
The Blackwell School served as a segregated school for the Hispanic population of Marfa during the era of de facto segregation from 1889-1965.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Boston African American National Historic SiteMassachusetts
Centered on the north slope of Beacon Hill, the free African American community of 19th century Boston led the city and the nation in the fight against slavery and injustice.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic SiteNorth Carolina
Carl Sandburg provided a popular voice for the American people of the twentieth century and still speaks to us through his words, songs, and the beauty and serenity of this Historic Site.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic SiteDistrict of Columbia
Before Dr. Woodson, there was very little written history about the lives and experiences of African Americans. Dr. Woodson also established the modern Black History Month.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 April👨
Charles Pinckney National Historic SiteSouth Carolina
Charles Pinckney was a principal author and a signer of the United States Constitution. The remains of his coastal plantation are preserved to tell the story of a 'forgotten founder'.
Date Of First Visit: 2016 April👨👩
Chicago Portage National Historic SiteIllinois
Commemorates the place where 17th century French explorers Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette were shown a portage connecting the Great Lakes Basin and the Mississippi Valley.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 August👨👩
Chimney Rock National Historic SiteNebraska
A prominent rock formation rising 300 feet above the surrounding North Platte River valley. During the 19th century, it served as a landmark along the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.
Date Of First Visit: 2016 January👨👩👧
Christiansted National Historic SiteU.S. Virgin Islands
Demonstrates the architectural, economic, and political influence of Europe in the Caribbean. One of the few urban parks in the Caribbean, allowing visitors to wander through 18th century buildings.
Date Of First Visit: 2019 February👨👩
Clara Barton National Historic SiteMaryland
Clara Barton dedicated her life and energies to help others in times of need - both home and abroad, in peacetime as well as during military emergencies.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Edgar Allan Poe National Historic SitePennsylvania
Described as horrifying, mystifying, and full of genius, Poe's writing has engaged readers all over the globe. The site celebrates Poe's astonishing creativity in his humble home.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Eisenhower National Historic SitePennsylvania
Home and farm of General and President Eisenhower. Located adjacent to the Gettysburg Battlefield, the farm served as a weekend retreat and meeting place for world leaders.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic SiteNew York
The only site dedicated to a first lady. Tour the modest cottage Eleanor called Val-Kill and enjoy the lovely gardens and grounds on the site.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 October👨👩
Eugene O'Neill National Historic SiteCalifornia
America's only Nobel Prize winning playwright. Isolated from the world, and within the walls of his home, O'Neill wrote his final and most memorable plays here.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 February👨👩
Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis National Historic SiteOhio
The Battle of Fallen Timbers demonstrated the tenacity of the American people in their quest for western expansion and the struggle for dominance in the Old Northwest Territory.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 August👨👩
First Ladies National Historic SiteOhio
Two properties are preserved at this site: the home of First Lady Ida Saxton McKinley and the seven story 1895 City Bank Building. Honors the lives and accomplishment of our nation's First Ladies.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 August👨👩
Ford's Theatre National Historic SiteDistrict of Columbia
Discover Abraham Lincoln's life in Washington DC, the struggle for a united country, and the motivation behind Lincoln's Assassination.
Date Of First Visit: 2013 July👨👩
Fort Bowie National Historic SiteArizona
Commemorates the conflict between Chiricahua Apaches and the U.S. military. A lasting monument to the bravery and endurance of U.S. soldiers in taming the western frontier.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 April👨👩
Fort Davis National Historic SiteTexas
One of the best surviving examples of an Indian Wars' frontier military post in the Southwest. Strategically located on the San Antonio-El Paso Road and on the Chihuahua Trail.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 November👨👩
Fort Laramie National Historic SiteWyoming
Originally established as a private fur trading fort in 1834, Fort Laramie evolved into the largest and best known military post on the Northern Plains, before its abandonment in 1890.
Date Of First Visit: 2016 January👨👩
Fort Larned National Historic SiteKansas
This well-preserved fort on the Santa Fe Trail shares a tumultuous history of the Indian Wars era. The sandstone constructed buildings sheltered troops on the Santa Fe Trail.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 April👨👩
Fort Point National Historic SiteCalifornia
From its vantage point overlooking the spectacular Golden Gate Bridge, Fort Point protected San Francisco harbor from Confederate and foreign attack during and after the U.S. Civil War.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 December👨👩
Fort Raleigh National Historic SiteNorth Carolina
Preserves portions of England's first New World settlements as well as the cultural heritage of the Native, European, and African Americans who have lived on Roanoke Island.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
Fort Scott National Historic SiteKansas
All of the site's structures, parade ground, and tallgrass prairie bear witness to the era of 1842-1873 when the country was forged from a young republic into a united transcontinental nation.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 October👨👩
Fort Smith National Historic SiteArkansas / Oklahoma
Preserves almost 80 years of history at the fort on the edge of Indian Territory. The first Fort Smith was established in December of 1817.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 October👨👩
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic SiteNorth Dakota / Montana
Between 1828 and 1867, Fort Union was the most important fur trade post on the Upper Missouri River. The post annually traded over 25,000 buffalo robes and $100,000 in merchandise.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 July👨👩
Fort Vancouver National Historic SiteWashington / Oregon
Lands and structures located along the Columbia River that were the center of fur trade and military history in the Pacific Northwest.
Date Of First Visit: 2015 July👨👩
Frederick Douglass National Historic SiteDistrict of Columbia
Includes Cedar Hill, home of the famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Douglass escaped slavery to spend his life fighting for justice and equality for all people.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic SiteMassachusetts
Olmsted is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost park maker. He established the first professional office for the practice of landscape design.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Friendship Hill National Historic SitePennsylvania
The restored country estate of Albert Gallatin, best remembered for his thirteen year tenure as Secretary of the Treasury during the Jefferson and Madison administrations.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Gloria Dei Church National Historic SitePennsylvania
Before Pennsylvania there was New Sweden. The site includes the church's pastoral surroundings and its burial ground of both patriots and ordinary citizens.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic SiteMontana
Once the headquarters of a 10 million acre cattle empire, Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site commemorates the role of cattlemen in American history.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 May👨👩
Grey Towers National Historic SitePennsylvania
Grey Towers was the home of Gifford Pinchot, first Chief of the US Forest Service and Pennsylvania Governor for two terms.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
Hampton National Historic SiteMaryland
An elegantly furnished Georgian mansion built just after the Revolutionary War. Today, the house is just a remnant of the Hampton estate of the early 1800's.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
Harry S. Truman National Historic SiteMissouri
Experience the surroundings Truman knew both as a young man of modest ambition, through his political career, and also in the final years as a former president.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 October👨👩
Herbert Hoover National Historic SiteIowa
Born in a two-room cottage, Hoover could have been any small town boy. Orphaned at age nine, he left West Branch, never to live here again.
Date Of First Visit: 2019 September👨👩
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic SiteNew York
Springwood, the estate of Roosevelt, was the only place he considered home. The first Presidential Library was also started here.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 October👨👩
Honouliuli National Historic SiteHawaii
Tells the history of internment and martial law in Hawaii during World War II. A place to reflect on wartime experiences and recommit ourselves to the pursuit of freedom and justice.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Hopewell Furnace National Historic SitePennsylvania
Showcases an American industrial landscape from natural resource extraction to enlightened conservation. Hopewell laid the foundation for the United States transformation to an industrial giant.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic SiteArizona
The oldest operating trading post on the Navajo Nation. Hubbell's has been serving Ganado, selling groceries, grain, hardware, horse tack, coffee and Native American Art since 1878.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 April👨👩
James A. Garfield National Historic SiteOhio
In 1880, James Garfield used his front porch as a platform to greet thousands of well-wishers during his presidential campaign. Today, the porch serves as a gateway to the story of the Garfield family.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 October👨👩
Jamestown National Historic SiteVirginia
Walk in the steps of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas where a successful English colonization of North America began. Also the origin of slavery in English North America.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic SiteMassachusetts
Birthplace of John F. Kennedy. Today, visitors travel back in time through Rose Kennedy's memories to understand the Kennedy family's early years.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 September👨
John Muir National Historic SiteCalifornia
As America's most famous naturalist and conservationist, Muir fought to protect the wild places he loved. Establishing Yosemite, Sequoia, Grand Canyon and Mt. Rainier as national parks.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 December👨👩
Kate Mullany National Historic SiteNew York
Home of the American Labor Studies Center. The site is currently undergoing restoration and does not have regular visiting hours.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 October👨👩
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic SiteNorth Dakota
Native American farmers living in villages along the Missouri visited the site which was a major trade center for hundreds of years prior to becoming an important market place for fur traders.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 July👨👩
Lincoln Home National Historic SiteIllinois
Tour the house to see the toys the boys played with, see a recipe for Mary Lincoln's white cake, and learn what has happened to Lincoln's home since they left for Washington in 1861.
Date Of First Visit: 2021 November👨👩
Little Rock Central High School National Historic SiteArkansas
Recognized for the role it played in the desegregation of public schools in the United States and the implementation of Brown v. Board of Education.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 February👨👩
Longfellow House Washington's Headquarters National Historic SiteMassachusetts
Preserves the home of Henry W. Longfellow, one of the world's foremost 19th century poets. The house also served as headquarters for General George Washington during the Siege of Boston.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 September👨👩
Lower East Side Tenement Museum National Historic SiteNew York
Home to an estimated 7,000 people from over 20 nations between 1863 and 1935. Throughout the year, programs such as walking tours and readings are offered.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Maggie L. Walker National Historic SiteVirginia
Walker devoted her life to civil rights advancement, economic empowerment, and educational opportunities for African Americans. Her home is preserved as a tribute to her legacy.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
Manzanar National Historic SiteCalifornia
Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II.
Date Of First Visit: Visiting Soon
Martin Van Buren National Historic SiteNew York
Van Buren ran for the presidency twice from this house in the 1840's while violence over the extension of slavery grew. He hoped to unite interests but failed; ultimately so did the union.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 October👨👩
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic SiteDistrict of Columbia
This Washington, DC townhouse was the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women and was Bethune's last home in Washington, DC.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 April👨
Minidoka National Historic SiteIdaho / Washington
After Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 forcing 120,000 Japanese Americans into Relocation Centers. It was the single largest forced relocation in U.S. history.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 August👨👩
Minuteman Missile National Historic SiteSouth Dakota
During the Cold War, Minuteman missiles held the power to destroy civilization, but this destructive force also acted as a nuclear deterrent which maintained peace and prevented war.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 July👨👩
New Philadelphia National Historic SiteIllinois
The first known town legally registered by an African American before the Civil War. A former slave founded the town in 1836 and by the 1940's, nothing of the town remained.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Nicodemus National Historic SiteKansas
Represents the involvement of African Americans in the settlement of the Great Plains. It is the oldest and only remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi River.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 April👨👩
Ninety Six National Historic SiteSouth Carolina
At this site settlers struggled to survive, Cherokee Indians fought to keep their land, two towns were formed and abandoned, and two Revolutionary War battles claimed over 100 lives.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic SiteDistrict of Columbia
A street unlike any other, known the world over as the heart of the Nation's Capital. America's history has marched, paraded, promenaded, and protested it's way along the Avenue.
Date Of First Visit: 2013 July👨👩
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic SiteArkansas
In this house, on August 19, 1946, Virginia Blythe gave birth to her son, William Jefferson Blythe, III. Named for his father who died before he was born, he grew up to become William Jefferson Clinton.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 February👨👩
Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic SiteHawaii
Walk in the footsteps of a king, experience the culminating event of a people foretold from centuries past, and stand on a beach and watch as sharks pass over a submerged temple.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 April👨👩
Sagamore Hill National Historic SiteNew York
Sagamore Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt from 1885 until his death in 1919. During Roosevelt's time in office, his 'Summer White House' was the focus of international attention.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Saint Croix Island International Historic SiteMaine / New Brunswick
The winter of 1604 was a cruel one for Pierre Dugua's French expedition. Although the expedition moved on by summer, the beginning of the French presence in North America had begun.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Saint Paul's Church National Historic SiteNew York
Tells the story of the development of colonial society and the road to the American Revolution. It consists of an 18th-century church, a historic cemetery, and the remnant of a Village Green.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Salem Maritime National Historic SiteMassachusetts
The historic buildings, wharves, and reconstructed tall ship at this nine-acre site tell the stories of the sailors, Revolutionary War privateers, and merchants who brought the riches of the world to America.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 October👨👩
San Juan National Historic SitePuerto Rico
San Juan was one of the key frontier outposts of Spain's West Indies dominions. Includes Castillo San Cristobal, Castillo San Felipe del Morro, Fortin San Juan de la Cruz, and part of the city walls.
Date Of First Visit: 2019 February👨👩
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic SiteColorado
The events of November 29, 1864 changed the course of history. As 675 cavalrymen came around a prairie bend, the camps of three Chiefs lay in the valley before them.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 April👨👩
Saugus Iron Works National Historic SiteMassachusetts
In the 1600's European iron makers brought their skills to a young Massachusetts colony. Includes working waterwheels, hot forges, mills, an historic 17th century home, and a lush river basin.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 October👨👩
Springfield Armory National Historic SiteMassachusetts
Commemorates the role of the nation's first armory by preserving and interpreting the world's largest historic US military small arms collection, historic archives, buildings, and landscapes.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 March👨👩
Steamtown National Historic SitePennsylvania
Today, you can relive the era of steam as the engines come back to life. The cinders and grease, the oil and steam, the people and stories of railroading have returned.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic SiteNew York
Roosevelt was the only president born in New York City. Raised in a townhouse, he started life as a bright boy who exercised to improve his health.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 June👨👩
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic SiteNew York
One of the most important presidencies nearly didn't happen. See the place where a brief, emotional, and improvised ceremony in Buffalo brought Roosevelt into office and altered the nation.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 October👨👩
Thomas Cole National Historic SiteNew York
Thomas Cole invented a new style of art in this home, Cedar Grove, one that Americans could call their own. His landscape paintings launched the art movement known as the Hudson River School.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 October👨👩
Thomas Stone National Historic SiteMaryland
Prior to the Revolutionary War, Thomas Stone led a very comfortable life as a planter and lawyer. He became one of 56 men to sign the Declaration of Independence.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Touro Synagogue National Historic SiteRhode Island
One of the most historically significant Jewish buildings in America. Dedicated in 1763, it still serves an active congregation and greets over 30,000 visitors each year.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 March👨👩
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic SiteAlabama
The Army Air Corps began a military experiment to see if Negroes could be trained to fly combat aircraft. The first pilots began their training at Moton Field, in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Date Of First Visit: 2016 April👨👩
Tuskegee Institute National Historic SiteAlabama
In 1881, Booker T. Washington started building Tuskegee Institute. He recruited the best and the brightest to come and teach including George Washington Carver.
Date Of First Visit: 2016 April👨👩
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic SiteMissouri
Grant first met Julia Dent, his future wife, at her family home, named White Haven. From 1854 to 1859 the Dents, Grants and an enslaved African-American workforce lived on the property.
Date Of First Visit: 2021 November👨👩
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic SiteNew York
In terms of architecture, interiors, mechanical systems, and landscape, this is an example of a gilded-age place illustrating changes that occurred as America industrialized after the Civil War.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 October👨👩
Washita Battlefield National Historic SiteOklahoma
The site protects the setting where George A. Custer led the 7th U.S. Cavalry on a surprise dawn attack against the Southern Cheyenne village of Peace Chief Black Kettle on November 27, 1868.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Whitman Mission National Historic SiteWashington
The 1847 Whitman Massacre horrified Americans and impacted lives for decades. The circumstances that surround this tragic event resonate with modern issues of differing cultural perspectives.
Date Of First Visit: 2019 October👨👩
William Howard Taft National Historic SiteOhio
The environment that shaped Taft's character and philosophy is highlighted on a visit to the two-story Greek Revival house where he was born and grew up.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited