National Historic Landmark -Market House

National Historic Landmark -Market House

Built in 1838, this structure is unique in that it is one of the few structures in America which employs the town hall-market scheme found in England.

Meat and produce were sold under the open first-floor arcade ...

National Historic Landmark - Nash-Hooper House

National Historic Landmark - Nash-Hooper House

Built by Francis Nash, Revolutionary War hero and general.

Home, from 1782 until his death in 1790, of William Hooper, a signer of the Declaration of Independence for North Carolina and a delegate to the ...

National Historic Landmark-N C Mutual Life Insurance Building

National Historic Landmark - North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company Building

Built in 1921, this building was the second home office of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which was founded in 1898.

This company evolved out of a ...

National Historic Landmark -USS North Carolina (BB-55)

National Historic Landmark -NORTH CAROLINA, USS (Battleship)

First and namesake of a modern class of American battleships built just prior to World War II, USS NORTH CAROLINA set a standard for new shipbuilding technology that combined high speeds with powerful armament.

Her ...

National Historic Landmark -Menoken Indian Village Site

National Historic Landmark -Menoken Indian Village Site

This site shows certain structural and artifactual similarities to historic and prehistoric earthlodge villages along the Upper Missouri River.

Archaeological research in 1998-1999 demonstrates conclusively that this village was occupied during the early AD ...

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

National Historic Landmark - Huff Archeological Site

By 1500 A.D., the Middle Missouri agricultural villages were the principal focus for social organization of Mandan people, who had developed extensive trading networks over the previous 200 years.

The Huff Village is one ...

National Historic Landmark - Fort Union Trading Post

National Historic Landmark - Fort Union Trading Post

This was the principal fur-trading depot in the Upper Missouri River region from 1829 to 1867.

National Historic Landmark -Big Hidatsa Village Site

National Historic Landmark -Big Hidatsa Village Site

Occupied from about 1740 to 1850, this is the largest of three Hidatsa communities near the mouth of the Knife River, showing the effects of nearly a century of fur trade interaction with ...

National Historic Landmark-Bagg Bonanza Farm

National Historic Landmark - Frederick A. and Sophia Bagg Bonanza Farm

The Bagg Bonanza Farm represents the broad patterns of Bonanza farms, which according to the -Atlantic Monthly- in 1880, were-destined to exercise a most potent influence on the production of ...

National Historic Landmark - Zero Gravity Research Facility

National Historic Landmark - Zero Gravity Research Facility

This facility was used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to study the physics of handling liquids in a zero-gravity environment.

Knowledge of the characteristics of liquids in a low-gravity environment ...