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x Washington Monument Washington Monument Dusk Jan 2006 National Register of Historic Places 1966 National Memorial
The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., built to commemorate the first U.S. president, General George Washington. The monument, made of marble, granite, and sandstone, is both the world's...
National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Monument
x Lincoln Memorial Lincoln memorial dc 20041011 095847 1 National Register of Historic Places 1966 National Memorial
The Lincoln Memorial is an American memorial built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln. It is located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. and was dedicated on May 30, 1922. The architect was Henry Bacon, the...
National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
x Johnstown Flood National Memorial Johnstown Flood damage National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Johnstown Flood National Memorial commemorates the 2,209 people who died in the Johnstown Flood of 1889, caused by a break in the South Fork Dam. Clara Barton successfully led the American Red Cross in its first disaster relief effort. The memorial...
x Yucca House National Monument Entrance to Yucca House National Monument National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Yucca House National Monument is a United States National Monument located in Montezuma County, Colorado, United States. Yucca House is a large, unexcavated Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the site a...
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x Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac LBJ Memorial Grove Monolith National Register of Historic Places Dec 28, 1973 National Memorial
Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac is located on Columbia Island in Washington, D.C. The memorial honors the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. The grove consists of two parts. The first area, commemorative in...
x Roger Williams National Memorial View of Roger Williams National Memorial National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Roger Williams National Memorial is a landscaped urban park located on a common lot of the original settlement of Providence, Rhode Island, by Roger Williams in 1636. Bounded by North Main, Canal, and Smith Streets and Park Row, the memorial...
x Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial Thaddeus Kosciuszko House in May 1972, prior to restoration. National Register of Historic Places Dec 18, 1970 National Memorial
Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial, at 301 Pine Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, preserves the home of Tadeusz (Thaddeus) Kościuszko. Instructed to find "a dwelling as small, as remote, and as cheap" as possible, Kosciuszko's secretary,...
x Chamizal National Memorial Visitor Center at Chamizal National Memorial National Register of Historic Places Feb 4, 1974 National Memorial
Chamizal National Memorial, located in El Paso, Texas, along the United States–Mexico international border, commemorates the peaceful settlement of the Chamizal boundary dispute. The 55 acre (222,200 m²) memorial park serves primarily as a cultural...
x Wright Brothers National Memorial Monument at Wright Brothers National Memorial. National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio,...
x Coronado National Memorial Coronado-natl-memorial National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Coronado National Memorial, near Sierra Vista, Arizona, commemorates the first organized expedition into the Southwest by conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. In a natural setting on the international border, the memorial confirms the ties...
x Thomas Jefferson Memorial Jeffersonmonument National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is a presidential memorial in Washington, D.C. that is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, an American Founding Father and the third president of the United States. The neoclassical building was designed by John Russell Pope...
x General Grant National Memorial Tombs of Ulysses and Julia Grant. National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
General Grant National Memorial (as designated by the U.S. National Park Service), better known as Grant's Tomb, is a mausoleum containing the bodies of Ulysses S. Grant (1822–1885), American Civil War General and 18th President of the United States...
x Fort Clatsop Fort clatsop National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805-1806. Located along the Lewis and Clark River at the north end of the Clatsop Plains approximately...
x Theodore Roosevelt Island Fountain on Theodore Roosevelt Island National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Theodore Roosevelt Island, formerly known as My Lord's Island, Barbadoes Island, Mason's Island, Analostan Island, and Anacostine Island, is a national memorial located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. and was the gift to the American people...
x USS Arizona Memorial The Arizona is both a tomb and a memorial National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
The USS Arizona Memorial, located at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, marks the resting place of 1,102 of the 1,177 sailors killed on the USS Arizona during the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 by Japanese imperial forces and...
x Federal Hall The Federal Customs House (now Federal Hall, New York City, with Ithiel Town, 1833 – 42 National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Federal Hall, located at 26 Wall Street in New York City, was the first capitol of the United States of America and the site of George Washington's inauguration as the first President of the United States on April 30, 1789. It is also the place...
x Fort Caroline Fort caroline National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Fort Caroline was the first French colony in the present-day United States. Established in what is now Jacksonville, Florida on June 22, 1564, it was intended as a refuge for the Huguenots. It lasted only a year before being obliterated by the...
x De Soto National Memorial Hernando de Soto National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
De Soto National Memorial, 5 miles (8 km) west of Bradenton, Florida, commemorates the 1539 landing of Hernando de Soto and the first extensive organized exploration by Europeans of what is now the southern United States. In May of 1539, Hernando de...
x Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial Arlington House pre-1861 National Register of Historic Places Oct 15, 1966 National Memorial
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, also known as the Custis-Lee Mansion, is a Greek revival style mansion located in Arlington, Virginia, USA and was once the home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. It overlooks the Potomac River,...
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