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Featured Article: Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, in Flat Rock, North Carolina, is the final home of Carl Sandburg, an American biographer, historian, and poet. See more »

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site marks the site near Hodgenville, Kentucky, where President Abraham Lincoln was born.

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Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site

Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, near Altoona, Pennsylvania, preserves the history of the first railroad to cross the Allegheny Mountains.

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Andersonville National Historic Site

Andersonville National Historic Site, in Andersonville, Georgia, is a memorial to United States prisoners of war.

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Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, in Greeneville in northeastern Tennessee, includes two homes, the tailor shop, and the burial place of the 17th president of the United States.

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Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, near La Junta, Colorado, commemorates one of the most famous Plains trading posts and the first permanent American settlement in Colorado.

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Boston African American National Historic Site

Boston African American National Historic Site, in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, preserves a large number of structures related to the history of Boston's free African American community of the 1800's.

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Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, in Flat Rock, North Carolina, is the final home of Carl Sandburg, an American biographer, historian, and poet.

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Charles Pinckney National Historic Site

Charles Pinckney National Historic Site in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, preserves 28 acres (11 hectares) of Snee Farm, a former plantation of American statesman Charles Pinckney.

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Christiansted National Historic Site

Christiansted National Historic Site, on the island of St.

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Clara Barton National Historic Site

Clara Barton National Historic Site, in Glen Echo, Maryland, includes the home of Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross.

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Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site

Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, in Philadelphia, includes the former home of Poe, an American poet, short-story writer, and literary critic.

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Edison National Historic Site

Edison National Historic Site, in West Orange, New Jersey, consists of inventor Thomas Alva Edison's research and development laboratory and his home.

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Eisenhower National Historic Site

Eisenhower National Historic Site, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, includes the farm once owned by Dwight D.

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Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, in Hyde Park, New York, is the personal retreat and final home of Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of President Franklin D.

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Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site

Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site, in Danville, California, was the home where O'Neill, perhaps the greatest American playwright, wrote his final and most successful plays.

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Ford's Theatre National Historic Site

Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, in Washington, D.C., consists of the theater where President Abraham Lincoln was shot and the nearby house where he died.

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Fort Bowie National Historic Site

Fort Bowie National Historic Site, near Willcox, Arizona, preserves the remains of the base of United States military operations against the Chiricahua Apache Indians.

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Fort Davis National Historic Site

Fort Davis National Historic Site, in Fort Davis, Texas, commemorates the fort's role in settling the region and protecting travelers and merchants along the San Antonio-El Paso Road.

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Fort Laramie National Historic Site

Fort Laramie National Historic Site, in Fort Laramie, Wyoming, preserves the remains of a historic United States Army fort.

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