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Daniel Thew Wright House

Located in the neighborhood of Riverside, it was originally home to lawyer and federal judge Daniel Thew Wright, and it has been named a historic site because of its distinctive architecture.

Dean Family Farm

The Dean Family Farm, listed since 1994 as a historic site on the National Register of Historic Places, has its origins with the immigration of Daniel Dean, a native of Tobermore,

Kunōzan Tōshō-gū

At the present, most of the surviving buildings of the Kunōzan Tōshō-gū are protected by the national government as Important Cultural Properties and the whole mountain is protected as a National Historic Site.

Village Hobby Shop

Built on Main Street (now State Route 29) in the late 19th century, it is one of the village's oldest extant commercial buildings, and it has been named a historic site.


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Aaronic Priesthood Restoration Site

Pennsylvania Route 171, which had split the historic site in two was rerouted as part of the project.

Adams National Historical Park

Adams National Historical Park, formerly Adams National Historic Site, in Quincy, Massachusetts, preserves the home of Presidents of the United States John Adams and John Quincy Adams, of U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Charles Francis Adams, and of the writers and historians Henry Adams and Brooks Adams.

Atoka County, Oklahoma

About 12 miles WSW of the town of Atoka is Boggy Depot State Park, the historic site of a once large community on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route.

Benjamin Blackledge

The house was saved from destruction and registered as an historic site in the early 20th century, thanks to the prevalent local legend that the house briefly served as the headquarters of General Charles Cornwallis after his crossing of the Hudson River on the night of November 19–20, 1776.

Big Bend Country

Boat Encampment, near the Big Bend of the Columbia's most northerly point, is the historic site of a long-established fur trading cache and campsite on the annual York Factory Express.

Bixby Knolls, Long Beach, California

On the west side of the neighborhood, adjacent to the Los Angeles River, is the large Virginia Country Club, which is also the location of the Rancho Los Cerritos historic site.

Cal Palmer Memorial Building

The Cal Palmer Memorial Building (also known as Finders Keepers) is a historic site in Windermere, Florida.

Carrying Place

Carrying Place, Ontario, a community and National Historic Site in Canada

Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins

Catherineberg Sugar Mill Ruins is an historic site located in the Virgin Islands National Park, east of Cruz Bay on Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

Chief Master at Arms House

The Chief Master at Arms House is a historic site in DeLand, Florida, United States.

Cleveland Hall

Cleveland's Hall and Blacksmith Shop, a historic site in the community of Attica, Wisconsin

Crow Canyon

Crow Canyon Archaeological District, a historic site in Rio Arriba County, New Mexico.

Czarnieckiego Prison

Czarnieckiego (or Czarneckiego) Prison in Łódź within Ghetto Litzmannstadt, historic site no longer in existence, mentioned in World War II literature

De Valls Bluff Waterworks

The De Valls Bluff Waterworks is a historic site located in De Valls Bluff, Arkansas.

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a proclamation making it the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site.

Elkridge

Elkridge Furnace Complex, National Register of Historic Places designation for the same historic site

Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site

The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site, located in Danville, California, preserves Tao House, the Monterey Colonial hillside home of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill.

Genesee Depot, Wisconsin

Another historic site in Genesee Depot is Ten Chimneys, the home of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, so known because among the three buildings on the site, there are ten chimneys.

Golden Spike National Historic Site

Golden Spike National Historic Site is a U.S. National Historic Site located at Promontory Summit, north of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.

Grand Circus Park Historic District

Near this historic site, General George Armstrong Custer delivered a eulogy for thousands gathered to mourn the death of President Abraham Lincoln.

Grenoble Archaeological Museum

Grenoble Archaeological Museum is a museum located on the historic site of Saint-Laurent in Grenoble, between the river Isère and the hill of the Bastille.

Grosse Isle, Quebec

Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site were twinned on May 25, 1998, with the Famine Museum in Strokestown, Ireland.

Hamilton County Courthouse Square

Hamilton County Courthouse Square is a historic site in Noblesville, Indiana that includes the historic Hamilton County Courthouse.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement at Dresden, Ontario, which is 20 miles east of Algonac, Michigan.

Hogan-Borger Mound Archeological District

Hogan-Borger Mound Archeological District is a registered historic site near Ross, Ohio, listed in the National Register on 1975-10-21.

Illinois Route 123

New Salem, the home of Abraham Lincoln in the 1830s, has been reconstructed as Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site near Petersburg on IL-123.

James Harbottle Boyd

Efforts have been made to save and restore the historic site due its importance in Hawaiian history, as the alleged place where Queen Liliuokalani composed her immortal song Aloha ʻOe.

John Anderson Lodge

The John Anderson Lodge is an historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States, built for Ormond Beach promoter John Anderson (1853–1911).

José María Menéndez Menéndez

In 1876, he began the business of sheep farming, carrying sheep from the Falkland Islands, under the company "José Menéndez and Co." and the Estancia San Gregorio, now historic site of the Chilean commune, under the same name.

La Falda

La Falda is home to the historic "Eden Hotel" (now a public part and historic site/museum that does not host hotel guests) which was visited by Albert Einstein.

La Hougue Bie

La Hougue Bie is a historic site, with museum, in the Jersey parish of Grouville.

Lippincott Mansion

The Lippincott Mansion (also known as the Melrose Hall) is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.

Mcgees Bridge

The bridge provides a vital link between Hobart and two of Tasmania's principal tourist attractions - Port Arthur Historic Site on the Tasman Peninsula and the picturesque East Coast via the Tasman Highway.

Merville-Franceville-Plage

Batterie de Merville or Merville Gun Battery is an historic site situated in the eastern flank of the landing area Sword Beach where Lieutenant-Colonel Terence Otway carried out a heroic mission with his men of the 9th Battalion of parachutists before the dawn of D-Day by neutralizing the artillery of the German battery.

Missouri Route 107

No towns are on the route, but the Mark Twain Birthplace State Historic Site is less than a mile to the east in Florida.

Nabesna Road

The Slana Roadhouse, a historic site dating to 1928, is located on Nabesna Road in Slana.

Norstead

Norstead (Newfoundland), a reconstructed Viking-age village and port near L'Anse aux Meadows National Historic Site, Newfoundland and Labrador

Öküz Mehmed Pasha Caravanserai

US President Jimmy Carter was among the notable guests, who resided in the hotel during their visits to the nearby historic site Ephesus.

Old Hernando Elementary School

The Old Hernando Elementary School (also known as the Lakeview School) is a historic site in Hernando, Florida, United States.

Olds Hall

The Olds Hall (also known as the Arroyo Gardens Hotel or Daytona Terrace Hotel) is a historic site in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States.

Ormond Yacht Club

The Ormond Yacht Club is a historic site in Ormond Beach, Florida, United States.

Peter A. Jay

The 1838 Peter Augustus Jay House is a National Historic Landmark as well as a Save America's Treasures Project; NHL designation is the highest recognition conferred by the US government for a historic site—out of more than 80,000 places on the National Register, only about 2,430 are NHLs.

Slana Roadhouse

The Slana Roadhouse, on Nabesna Road in Slana, Alaska, in the Valdez-Cordova Census Area, is a historic site dating to 1928.

Texas Park Road 27

Park Road 27 or PR 27 is a Texas park road that runs from Fannin to the Fannin Battleground State Historic Site, which is the site of the Battle of Coleto.

Tourist Attractions in Baddeck, Nova Scotia

Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site - Historic site housing a museum dedicated to the work of Alexander Graham Bell

Union Mission Site

Union Mission Site is a historic site of a church mission and school in Mazie, Oklahoma.

Watervale

Watervale, Michigan, a former lumber town now a National Historic Site

Woodchuck Lodge

Woodchuck Lodge, also known as John Burroughs Memorial State Historic Site is in Roxbury in the western Catskills of Delaware County, New York, was a summertime home of naturalist John Burroughs.

Yerxa

Cabot's Pueblo Museum, a California historic site built by Cabot Abram Yerxa (1883-1965)