National Historic Landmark - Cripple Creek Historic District

Cripple Creek served one of the world's largest gold fields, yielding almost $25 million in 1901.

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National Historic Landmark - Tombstone Historic District

Tombstone is one of the best preserved specimens of the rugged frontier town of the 1870s and '80s. Site of one of the West's richest silver strikes and the "gunfight at the OK Corral", Tombstone epitomizes the legendary reputation of ...

National Historic Landmark-Mount Pleasant Historic District

National Historic Landmark-Mount Pleasant Historic District

The town of Mount Pleasant was established in 1803 by Robert Carothers, an Irishman from Virginia, and Jesse Thomas, a Quaker from North Carolina.

It is important for the role it played in the antislavery ...

National Historic Landmark - Jerome Historic District

Jerome was one of the richest copper-producing areas in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The town and surrounding mining area illustrate the historic activities associated with copper production.

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National Historic Landmark - Colonial Niagara Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Colonial Niagara Historic District

On Lake Ontario at the mouth of the Niagara River, the site was developed by the French (1726), captured by the British (1759), surrendered to the Americans after the Revolutionary War, and recaptured ...

National Historic Landmark-Cobblestone Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Cobblestone Historic District

Cobblestone construction is one of the more interesting of American vernacular building types.

Originating in the area of Rochester, most of these structures were built between 1825 and 1860 from the Ice Age residue of ...

National Historic Landmark-Chautauqua Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Chautauqua Historic District

The Chautauqua Institution began in 1874 as a Methodist Sunday School teacher's assembly and became one of the most popular educational institutions in America, often offering innovative secular programs before schools of higher education accepted ...

National Historic Landmark - Ybor City Historic District

Founded in 1886, Ybor City is significant in Spanish and Cuban American immigration history. The district is also of importance in American industrial history, for it contains the largest collection of buildings related to the cigar industry in America and ...

National Historic Landmark - St. Augustine Town Plan Historic District

St. Augustine, founded as a Spanish military base in 1565, is the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the continental United States. Laid out around a central plaza, the present streets are all in the original town plan.

National Historic Landmark-Brooklyn Heights Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Brooklyn Heights

Brooklyn Heights, with its phenomenal views of Lower Manhattan across the East River, was one of New York's most prestigious 19th-century addresses.

Houses and churches remain in excellent condition and present an almost complete architectural catalog of ...