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Saint Croix Island International Historic Site National Park in Calais, ME USA
International Historic Site The National Park Service preserves Saint Croix Island International Historic site as a monument to the beginning of the United States and Canada. In 1604, Pierre Dugua(sieur de Mons), accompanied by Samuel Champlain and 77 other men, established a settlement on St.
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Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site National Park in Mount Vernon, NY USA
National Historic Site This 18th-century church is one of New York's oldest parishes (1665-1980). It was used as a hospital following the important Revolutionary War Battle at Pell's Point in 1776, and was the scene of various military developments for the next six years.
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Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument National Park in Mountainair, NM USA
National Monument Once, thriving American Indian trade communities of Tiwa and Tompiro speaking Puebloans inhabited this remote frontier area of central New Mexico. Early in the 17th-century Spanish Franciscans found the area ripe for their missionary efforts.
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San Antonio Missions National Historical Park National Park in San Antonio, TX USA
National Historic Park Four Spanish frontier missions, part of a colonization system that stretched across the Spanish Southwest in the 17th, 18th, 19th centuries, are preserved here. They include Missions San Jose, San Juan, Espada, and Concepcion.
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San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park National Park in San Francisco, CA USA
National Park preserving America's maritime heritage San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park’s fleet of floating National Historic Landmarks, includes the 1886 square-rigger Balclutha (exhibit “Cargo is King”); the 1895 schooner C.A.
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Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site National Park in Kiowa County, CO USA
National Historic Site Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site is authorized, but will not be established until the NPS acquires enough land to provide for the preservation,commemoration, and interpretation of the Sand Creek Massacre.
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Santa Fe National Historic Trail National Park in State of Oklahoma, OK USA
National Historic Trail Between 1821 and 1880, the Santa Fe Trail was primarily a commercial highway connecting Missouri and Santa Fe, New Mexico. From 1821 until 1846, it was an international commercial highway used by Mexican and American traders. In 1846, the Mexican-American War began.
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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area National Park in Thousand Oaks, CA USA
National Recreation Area Stretching from the Oxnard Plain to the Hollywood Hills and located to the west of the Los Angeles basin, the Santa Monica Mountains offer myriad recreation and education opportunities.
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Saratoga National Historical Park National Park in Stillwater, NY USA
National Historical Park Site of the first significant American military victory during the Revolution, the Battles of Saratoga rank among the fifteen most decisive battles in world history.
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Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site National Park in Saugus, MA USA
National Historic Site This is the site of the first integrated ironworks in North America, 1646-1668. It includes the reconstructed blast furnace, forge, rolling mill, and a restored seventeenth century house.
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Scotts Bluff National Monument National Park in Gering, NE USA
National Monument A prominent natural landmark for emigrants on the Oregon Trail, Scotts Bluff, Mitchell Pass and the adjacent prairie lands are set aside in a 3,000 acre national monument. This site preserves the memory of the historic Oregon, California and Mormon Trails.
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Shiloh National Military Park National Park in Shiloh, TN USA
National Park Shiloh National Military Park was established in 1894 to preserve the scene of the first major battle in the Western theater of the Civil War. The two-day battle, April 6 and 7, 1862, involved about 65,000 Union and 44,000 Confederate troops.
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Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument National Park in Flagstaff, AZ USA
National Park Sunset Crater National Monument was established by President Herbert Hoover on May 26, 1930, to protect its geologic formations. In 1990 the name was changed to Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. It occupies 3,040 acres surrounded by Coconino National Forest.
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site National Park in New York City, NY USA
National Historic Site Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace NHS is located at 28 East 20th Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue South. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, lived at this site from his birth on October 27, 1858 until he was 14 years old.
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site National Park in Buffalo, NY USA
National Park On September 14th, 1901, an anxious Theodore Roosevelt stood in the library of a friend's home in Buffalo, NY. Hours earlier, President William McKinley had died of an assassin's bullet, and now Roosevelt stood ready to rise to the highest office in the land.
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Tonto National Monument National Park in Roosevelt, AZ USA
National Monument Well-preserved cliff dwellings were occupied by the Salado culture during the 13th, 14th, and early 15th centuries. The people farmed in the Salt River Valley and supplemented their diet by hunting and gathering native wildlife and plants.
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Trail of Tears National Park in State of Kentucky, KY USA
National Historic Trail In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (today known as Oklahoma).
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