2022年5月26日 · The Levi and Catharine Coffin House in Fountain City, Ind., may seem off the beaten path for Civil War aficionados, but that was not the case for thousands of enslaved people in antebellum America, for whom it was a symbol of incredible hope—appropriately labeled the “Grand Central Station of the Underground Railroad” in the 1840s.

2021年3月17日 · The townsite was designated a national historic landmark in 1976. Twenty years later, on Nov. 12, 1996, Congress designated Nicodemus a national historic site . With help from the National Park Service, Bates and other community members have committed to the preservation of Nicodemus’ historic structures and interpretation of its history.

2018年5月8日 · Little did I know that I was passing the site of the first North Ameri – can city. From AD 800 to 1400, the site now known as Cahokia Mounds, in Collinsville, Ill., about eight miles east of down – town St. Louis, was the dominant city of the Mississippian culture, the most sophisticated prehistoric culture in the Americas north of Mexico.

2017年10月17日 · Today the Grant Cottage, a state historic site since 1957 and operated by the Friends of the Ulysses S. Grant Cottage State Historic Site since 1989, remains a pilgrimage point for Civil War enthusiasts and regional vacationers alike.

2010年11月17日 · Today, the town of Franklin is a poster-child example of Main Street restoration of a historic downtown, its streets lined with boutiques and crowded with tourists. But just a few hundred yards beyond its charming shops stand two witnesses to …

2006年6月12日 · More than 50 structures were moved elsewhere, demolished or dismantled. The remaining 20 buildings fell into disrepair until 1937, when Wyoming purchased the site. A year later, ownership was transferred to the National Park Service, and Fort Laramie became a National Historic Monument. Congress redesignated it a National Historic Site in 1960.

2019年11月12日 · In late summer 2019, the NPS roadside signs along Interestate 95 were changed to “Stonewall Jackson Death Site.” “The name ‘Jackson Shrine’ was not helpful to visitors,” explained Hennessy. “The term ‘shrine,’ common for a historic site in the 1920s, is hardly ever used in that context today.”

2018年5月14日 · The most comprehensive and authoritative history site on the Internet. ... Battlefield State Historic Site

2023年5月25日 · Madden’s Tavern, on May 8, 1864, was a tragic moment in Culpeper’s Civil War History. You led a drive to have a marker placed there—the Maddensville Historic Site—in 2021. Tell us more about that effort. The project was years in the making. I have known the Madden family for many years.

2006年6月12日 · Beginning in 1969, various community organizations, led by Ed Pope and Eugene and Ruth Lasartemay, expressed interest and support in creating a state historic site at Allensworth. By 1973, the state had acquired the land, and the advisory committee, under the direction of Dr. Kenneth Goode, began its work.