National Historic Landmark-Boley Historic District

National Historic Landmark-Boley Historic District

Begun as a camp for African-American railroad construction hands, this is the largest of the towns established in Oklahoma to provide African-Americans with the opportunity for self-government in an era of white supremacy and segregation.

Courtesy National ...

National Historic Landmark- Skidmore/Old Town Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Skidmore/Old Town Historic District

This large commercial district marks the site where the city started and flourished.

Dating from the mid-to-late-19th century, these buildings were built in a variety of High Victorian architectural styles; a large number ...

National Historic Landmark- Jacksonville Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Jacksonville Historic District

Founded as a mining town in 1852, Jacksonville is a mid-19th century inland commercial town significant for its magnificent group of surviving unaltered commercial and residential buildings.

The town was the principal financial center ...

National Historic Landmark-Bonneville Dam Historic District

National Historic Landmark-Bonneville Dam Historic District

Built in the 1930s by the Federal government to raise and divert the Columbia River to generate hydroelectric power, the dam represented a unique engineering challenge for a diversion/overflow dam; it was the first ...

National Historic Landmark-Rittenhousetown Historic District

National Historic Landmark- Rittenhousetown Historic District

An important industrial community that spans the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, Rittenhousetown is the core of a village that grew up around the first paper mill (1690) in British North America.

At one time ...

National Historic Landmark - Lukens Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Lukens Historic District

This district is associated with Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854), who played a leading role in the 19th-century American iron industry, and her family legacy.

The firm she owned and managed--Brandywine Ironworks (later Lukens Steel Company)--was ...

National Historic Landmark - Lukens Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Lukens Historic District

This district is associated with Rebecca Lukens (1794-1854), who played a leading role in the 19th-century American iron industry, and her family legacy.

The firm she owned and managed--Brandywine Ironworks (later Lukens Steel Company)--was ...

National Historic Landmark - Harmony Historic District

National Historic Landmark - Harmony Historic District

The Harmony Society, 300 followers of George Rapp, established a utopian settlement here in 1805.

It developed into a prosperous agricultural and manufacturing community, which was sold when the Society decided to move to ...

Northwest Neighborhood Historic District

Bounded by NW 2nd and 11th Streets, North Rosemary and Douglas Avenues.

Local black builders and contractors such as Simeon Mother, R.A. Smith, J.S. Woodside, Alfred Williams and Samuel O. Major constructed most of the buildings in this district. Local architects ...

Pigeon Key Historic District

Located at U.S. Highway 1 at Mile Marker 45, the district consists of seven frame vernacular structures built between 1909 and 1920 as a railroad construction work camp for laborers on Henry Flagler's overseas railroad. The camp includes a 1912 ...