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Click on a state to see a list of the National Historic Landmarks in that state. The United States National Historic Landmark Program is designed to recognize and honor the nation's cultural and historical heritage. The program was formally inaugurated with a series of listings on October 9, 1960; as of August 21, 2020, there are 2,597 ...
Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, was the first national historic site to be established in the U.S. National Historic Site (NHS) and National Historical Park (NHP) are designations for officially recognized areas of nationally historic significance in the United States. They are usually owned and managed by the ...
The National Register of Historic Places in the United States is a register including buildings, sites, structures, districts, and objects. The Register automatically includes all National Historic Landmarks as well as all historic areas administered by the U.S. National Park Service. Since its introduction in 1966, more than 97,000 separate ...
National Register of Historic Places by state (67 C) Historic house museums in the United States by state or territory (51 C) Historic trails and roads in the United States by state or territory (50 C)
Note this category includes List of National Historic Landmarks in Boston and several other lists not exactly at the state level. This permits this OpenSourceMap to show locations of all U.S. National Historic Landmarks , current and former, for which coordinates are included in the list-articles of NHLs.
Category: Populated places on the National Register of Historic Places by state. 1 language.
National Historic Landmarks in New Mexico (1 C, 47 P) National Historic Landmarks in New York (state) (4 C, 166 P) National Historic Landmarks in North Carolina (41 P)
The president of the United States can establish a national monument by presidential proclamation, and the United States Congress can do so by legislation. The president's authority arises from the Antiquities Act of 1906, which allows the president to proclaim "historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of ...