National Historic Landmark- Trujillo Homestead / Zapata Ranch

After the United States annexed Mexico’s northern territories in 1848, the new American citizens of the Southwest moved north and east. One of these Hispano Americans was Teofilo Trujillo, who settled with his wife in the San Luis Valley ...

Historic Homestead Townhall Museum

The Museum exists to provide its culturally diverse community with information about past human thought and activity, which supplies critical context for analysis of persistent themes and significant issues to the present. The Museum collects, preserves and interprets objects and ...

Franklin Pierce Homestead

“…I shall never cease to remember my birthplace with pride as well as affection, and with still more pride shall I recollect the steady, unqualified and generous confidence which has been reposed in me by its inhabitants.” – Franklin ...

Homestead Meat Shop and Smokehouse

The Homestead Meat Shop and Smokehouse was built around 1868, and was used to process meat for the several communal kitchens in the village of Homestead. Most butchering was done in the fall and winter, and meat was smoked ...

Homestead Dwellings

The most common building type found in the Amana Colonies, the dwellings reflect the simple lives of their residents. Several original dwellings, mostly brick, remain in Homestead today. Amana Colony houses were typically rectangular, one-and-a-half-story buildings built with the ...

The Grimes Homestead

This house, constructed in the late 18th century, was home to the Grimes family, a Quaker family active in the New Jersey antislavery movement. Dr. John Grimes (1802-1875), the most noted and vociferous antislavery advocate in the family, was ...

Jackson Homestead

The Jackson Homestead is a well-preserved Federal-style house in Newton, Massachusetts. Corroborating written reminiscences and oral tradition provide evidence that the house served as a station on the Underground Railroad. Timothy Jackson (1756-1814) built the family homestead in 1809 ...

Cook Homestead

This plot marks the site of the home of John Cook, pioneer settler, who with his wife Diantha J., and children Freddie W., Mary E., and John W., were murdered by Indians April 26, 1872.

Marker can be reached from County ...

The Homestead Grounds

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

There are no written records describing the Homestead grounds as Andrew Johnson knew them from 1869 until 1875. The earliest descriptions of the landscape during that period come from the oral accounts of Andrew Johnson’s descendants ...

Van Keuren Homestead

Burned by British Oct. 17,

1777. Rebuilt and occupied

by direct descendants of

original owner since then.

Marker is on St. James Street, on the right when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org