Tabor Antislavery Historic District

The town of Tabor in southwestern Iowa played a significant role in the 1850s as a center for the western antislavery movement. Tabor found itself in a strategic position to impact the future of slavery in the West. The ...

El Presidio Historic District

El Presidio Historic District is one of six divisions of downtown Tucson, Arizona. The district derives its name from El Presidio San Agustin del Tucson, an eighteenth-century Spanish presidio, or fort. Hugh O'Connor, also known as El Capitan Colorado or ...

East Pine Historic District

Now located near the heart of downtown Missoula, the East Pine Historic District was once an isolated and untamed area on the outskirts of town.

In an effort to escape the hustle and bustle of downtown Missoula, Francis Worden built ...

Slob Historic District

The Slob Historic District began as a large sugar plantation in the mid-18th century. Owned by the Bodkin family until 1784, the estate boasted a factory building, a water mill tower, a "great house" constructed c.1750 and a slave village. ...

Estate St. George Historic District

The Estate St. George Historic District represents a successful late 18th-century sugar plantation. Owned by the Heyliger family during the era known as the "Golden Age of Sugar" (1770 to 1782), the estate continued to process sugar until 1916. After ...

Frederiksted Historic District

The Frederiksted Historic District symbolizes 200 years of western St. Croix's political history. Frederiksted was laid out in a grid plan by surveyor Jens Beck. Fort Frederik constructed by the Danes the following year to protect them from pirates, was ...

Annaberg Historic District

The Annaberg Plantation is one of several St. John's plantations owned in the 1720s and 1730s by Frederick Moth, the first Danish Governor of St.Croix and, later, the Governor General of the Danish West Indies. By the early 19th century, ...

Hermitage Plantation Historic District

Although established after 1780, the cotton-cultivating Hermitage Plantation possessed numerous plantation buildings by 1800. The structures of Hermitage Plantation Historic District are clustered along the north side of Borck Creek, one of Coral Bay's several inlets. By the mid-19th century, ...

Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District

Reef Bay Estate was established in the early 18th century as a cattle and cotton plantation. Combining with the Par Force Estate around 1800, the estate underwent a conversion to sugar cane production. The Reef Bay Sugar Factory Historic District ...

Hassel Island Historic District

Originally connected to St. Thomas Island by an isthmus, Hassel Island forms the western edge of St. Thomas Harbor. The Danish government first separated Hassel Island from the main island in 1860, and in 1919, the U.S. Army Corps of ...