Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical ParkKentucky
For over a century people have come to honor the humble beginnings of our 16th president. His early life on Kentucky's frontier shaped his character and prepared him to lead the nation.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 May👨👩
Adams National Historical ParkMassachusetts
Preserves and protects the grounds, homes, and personal property of two American presidents and subsequent generations of their descendants. Also interprets the history and educates visitors.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 September👨
Appomattox Court House National Historical ParkVirginia
On Palm Sunday, 1865, Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House signaled the end of the Civil War. It set the stage for the emergence of an expanded and more powerful Federal government.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
Blackstone River Valley National Historical ParkRhode Island / Massachusetts
In December of 2014, President Obama established the park to preserve, protect, and interpret the nationally significant resources that exemplify the industrial heritage of the Blackstone River Valley.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Boston National Historical ParkMassachusetts
Eight sites that showcase Boston's role in the American Revolution. Many of the sites are located along the 2.5 mile Freedom Trail, which can be walked.
Date Of First Visit: 2012 May👨👩
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical ParkKansas
Site dedicated to the plaintiffs in the case, who never knew they would change history. They were teachers, secretaries, welders, ministers and students who just wanted to be treated equally.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 October👨👩
Cane River Creole National Historical ParkLouisiana
Home to the Creole culture. A 300 year relationship between the Creoles and their homeland was shaped by the Cane River. Their resourcefulness has allowed the Creole culture to endure.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical ParkVirginia
Created to protect several historically significant locations in the Shenandoah Valley, notably the site of the American Civil War Battle of Cedar Creek and the Belle Grove Plantation.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 May👨👩
Chaco Culture National Historical ParkNew Mexico
Contains the densest and most exceptional concentration of pueblos in the American Southwest. The park is located in a remote canyon cut by the Chaco Wash.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 April👨👩
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical ParkMaryland / West Virginia / District of Columbia
Preserving America's early transportation history. Operating for nearly 100 years the canal was a lifeline for communities along the Potomac River.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 May👨👩
Colonial National Historical ParkVirginia
The park includes several sites as well as the Colonial Parkway, a scenic 23-mile parkway linking the three points of Virginia's Historic Triangle: Jamestown, Yorktown, and Williamsburg.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 June👨👩👧
Coltsville National Historical ParkConnecticut
Samuel Colt started his factory on the banks of the Connecticut River in 1847. Demand for Colt's revolver would change his fortunes and the Colt empire was born.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Cumberland Gap National Historical ParkKentucky / Tennessee / Virginia
Regarded as the first gateway to the western frontier. Early explorers like Daniel Boone followed bison and Indian trails through the narrow opening, and entered into the land of Kentucky.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical ParkOhio
Commemorates three men: Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright, and Paul Laurence Dunbar. Wilbur and Orville built the world's first machine capable of sustained flight. Dunbar was a writer.
Date Of First Visit: 2023 August👨👩
First State National Historical ParkDelaware / Pennsylvania
Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution, and this monument preserves sites that commemorate Delaware's early settlement, colonial period, and ratification of the Constitution.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 May👨👩
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical ParkSouth Carolina
Fort Sumter is a Third System masonry coastal fortification located in Charleston harbor. It is best known as the site where the shots initiating the Civil War were fired, at the Battle of Fort Sumter.
Date Of First Visit: 2016 April👨👩
George Rogers Clark National Historical ParkIndiana
Clark and his frontiersmen captured Fort Sackville and British Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton in 1779. The march remains one of the great feats of the American Revolution.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Golden Spike National Historical ParkUtah
May 10, 1869 the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined rails at Promontory Summit, Utah Territory and forged the destiny of a nation with the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 August👨👩👧
Harpers Ferry National Historical ParkWest Virginia / Maryland / Virginia
A visit to this quaint, historic community, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, is like stepping into the past. Stroll the streets, visit museums, or see the battlefields.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 May👨👩
Harriet Tubman National Historical ParkNew York
Central New York was a center for progressive thought, abolition, and women's suffrage where Tubman continued to fight for human rights and dignity until she died in 1913.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical ParkMaryland
Tubman was a famed conductor on the Underground Railroad. The monument includes sites relating to Tubman's life, including the slave-built Stewart's Canal and the home of Jacob Jackson.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Homestead National Historical ParkNebraska
Features the first homestead land obtained through the Homestead Act of 1862, the Freeman School house, Heritage Center, and an Education Center.
Date Of First Visit: 2013 September👨👩
Hopewell Culture National Historical ParkOhio
Earthen mounds and embankments forming huge geometric enclosures grace the landscape of the Ohio River Valley. These structures were built by Native American hands almost 2,000 years ago.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Independence National Historical ParkPennsylvania
Several sites associated with the American Revolution including Independence Hall, Liberty Bell Center, Benjamin Franklin Gravesite, and the National Constitution Center.
Date Of First Visit: 2013 July👨👩
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and PreserveLouisiana
Protects significant examples of the rich natural and cultural resources of Louisiana's Mississippi River Delta region. The park consists of six physically separate sites and a park headquarters.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 February👨👩
Jimmy Carter National Historical ParkGeorgia
The rural southern culture of Plains that revolves around farming, church and school, had a large influence in molding the character and in shaping the political policies of the 39th President.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Kalaupapa National Historical ParkHawaii
When leprosy was introduced to the Hawaiian Islands, King Kamehameha V banished all to the Kalaupapa peninsula. Since 1866, more than 8,000 people have died at Kalaupapa.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical ParkHawaii
Established for the preservation, protection, and interpretation of traditional native Hawaiian activities and culture. Includes the archaeological site known as the Honokohau Settlement.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 April👨👩
Keweenaw National Historical ParkMichigan
From 7,000 years ago to the 1900s people mined Keweenaw copper. Though the mines have since closed, their mark is still visible on the land and people.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical ParkAlaska / Washington
Commemorates the bravery of those who voyaged north by protecting the trails, towns, and buildings of the Gold Rush. The park consists of four units in Skagway, AK and Seattle, WA.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Lewis and Clark National Historical ParkOregon / Washington
The park began as Fort Clatsop National Memorial in 1958, but was re-designated in 2004. It contains multiple sites including Dismal Nitch, Fort Clatsop, Salt Works, and Station Camp.
Date Of First Visit: 2015 July👨👩
Lowell National Historical ParkMassachusetts
Lowell's water-powered textile mills catapulted the nation into an uncertain new industrial era. Nearly 200 years later, the changes that began here still reverberate in our shifting global economy.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 October👨👩
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical ParkTexas
The story of our 36th President, from his ancestors to his final resting place on his beloved Ranch. Gives the visitor a unique perspective into one of America's most noteworthy citizens.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 May👨👩
Manhattan Project National Historical ParkNew Mexico / Washington / Tennessee
This site tells the story about the people, events, science, and engineering that led to the creation of the atomic bomb, which helped end World War II.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 November👨👩
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical ParkVermont
Walk through one of Vermont's most beautiful landscapes, under the shade of sugar maples and 400-year-old hemlocks, across covered bridges and alongside rambling stone walls.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 October👨👩
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical ParkGeorgia
Visit the home of King's birth, and where he played as a child. Walk in his footsteps, and hear his voice in the church where he moved hearts and minds.
Date Of First Visit: 2016 April👨👩
Minute Man National Historical ParkMassachusetts
The opening battle of the Revolution is brought to life as visitors explore the battlefields and structures. The revolutionary spirit is observed through the writings of the Concord authors.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 March👨👩
Morristown National Historical ParkNew Jersey
Consists of three sites: Ford Mansion, Fort Nonsense, and Jockey Hollow. The park commemorates the sites of General Washington and the Continental army's winter encampment of 1779.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 May👨👩
Natchez National Historical ParkMississippi
Commemorates the history of Natchez, Mississippi. The park consists of three distinct parts: 18th century Fort Rosalie, free slave William Johnson House, and state senator Melrose Estate.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
New Bedford Whaling National Historical ParkMassachusetts
Commemorates the heritage of the world's preeminent whaling port during the nineteenth century. A 34 acre park that includes a visitor center, Whaling Museum, and the Schooner Ernestina.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 March👨👩
New Orleans Jazz National Historical ParkLouisiana
Created in 1994 to celebrate the origins and evolution of jazz music. The park consists of 4 acres with an office, visitors center, and concert venue in the French Quarter.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 February👨👩
Nez Perce National Historical ParkMultiple States
Nez Perce National Historical Park offers a unique perspective of the American west - not from the Mississippi River looking west, but from an ancient homeland looking out.
Date Of First Visit: 2019 October👨👩
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical ParkGeorgia
Preserves traces of more than 10 millennia of native Southeastern culture. From Ice Age hunters to the Creek Indians of historic times, there is evidence of at least 10,000 years of human habitation.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical ParkTexas
Preserves the site of the 1846 battle between the United States and Mexico. The battle was the first in a two-year long war that changed the map of North America.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Paterson Great Falls National Historical ParkNew Jersey
In 1791, Paterson was established, centered around the Great Falls of the Passaic River. The park includes waterfalls, geology sites, and engineering landmarks.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 May👨👩
Pecos National Historical ParkNew Mexico
Demonstrates the cultural exchange and geographic facets central to the rich history of the Pecos Valley. With pine woodlands, mountains, and the remains of an Indian pueblo.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 November👨👩
Pu'uhonua o Honaunau National Historical ParkHawaii
Preserves the site where Hawaiians who broke a law could avoid certain death by fleeing to this place of refuge or pu'uhonua. The offender would be absolved by a priest and freed to leave.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 April👨👩
Pullman National Historical ParkIllinois
The town of Pullman, a planned community famed for its urban design and architecture, was a place to provide workers with a safe community, better standard of living, and free of social ills.
Date Of First Visit: 2015 October👨👩
Reconstruction Era National Historical ParkSouth Carolina
The Reconstruction era was a time of significant transformation. The people, places, and events in Beaufort County, South Carolina, reflect on the most important issues of this tumultuous time period.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical ParkCalifornia
Explore and honor the efforts and sacrifices of American civilians on the World War II home front. Find out how they lived, worked and got along in this time of opportunity and loss.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 December👨👩
Saint-Gaudens National Historical ParkNew Hampshire
Discover the home, studios, and gardens of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, one of America's greatest sculptors. See over 100 of his artworks in the galleries and on the grounds.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 October👨👩
Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological PreserveU.S. Virgin Islands
Uniquely documents the Caribbean from the earliest indigenous settlements in the central Caribbean to their clash with seven different colonial European powers to the present day.
Date Of First Visit: 2019 February👨👩
San Antonio Missions National Historical ParkTexas
Preserves four Spanish frontier missions in San Antonio. Missions Concepcion, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, and Espada all still hold regular Catholic services.
Date Of First Visit: 2013 December👨👩
San Francisco Maritime National Historical ParkCalifornia
Located in the Fisherman's Wharf neighborhood, the park details Pacific Coast maritime history. Stand on the stern of Balclutha and feel the wind blowing in from the Pacific Ocean.
Date Of First Visit: 2014 December👨👩
San Juan Island National Historical ParkWashington
Known for vistas, shores, woodlands, whales, and one of the last remaining prairies in the Puget Sound. In 1859 the US and Great Britain nearly went to war over possession of the island.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Saratoga National Historical ParkNew York
In 1777, American troops forced a major British army to surrender. This crucial American victory renewed the patriots hopes for independence and secured essential foreign recognition.
Date Of First Visit: 2017 October👨👩
Sitka National Historical ParkAlaska
Preserves the site of a battle between invading Russian traders and indigenous peoples. Contains Tlingit and Haida totem poles along the coastal trail and a restored Russian Bishop's house.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Ste. Genevieve National Historical ParkMissouri
This area along the Mississippi River was used by French settlers, American Indians, Africans, and after 1770 - the Spanish.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Thomas Edison National Historical ParkNew Jersey
America's greatest inventor, Thomas Edison's home and laboratory are a step back in time, when machines were run by belts and pulleys and music was played on phonographs.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Tumacacori National Historical ParkArizona
Protects the ruins of three Spanish mission communities and it also contains the Tumacacori Museum built in 1937. The park consists of 360 acres in three separate units.
Date Of First Visit: 2018 April👨👩
Valley Forge National Historical ParkPennsylvania
Site of the 1777-78 winter encampment of the Continental Army. The park commemorates the sacrifices and perseverance of the Revolutionary War generation.
Date Of First Visit: 2013 July👨👩👧
War in the Pacific National Historical ParkGuam
Preserves former battlefields, gun emplacements, trenches, and historic structures of World War II. Known for its jungles, sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and stunning coral reefs.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited
Weir Farm National Historical ParkConnecticut
In 1882 painter Julian Weir and his family transformed their summer retreat into a refuge for fellow artists. After Weir, other artists lived and worked, continuing the legacy of artistic expression.
Date Of First Visit: 2022 October👨👩
Women's Rights National Historical ParkNew York
In 1848 Elizabeth Stanton and four other women held the First Women's Rights Convention where 100 people made a commitment to work together to improve women's quality of life.
Date Of First Visit: Not Yet Visited