National Historic Landmark-General Nathanael Greene Homestead

National Historic Landmark- General Nathanael Greene Homestead

From 1774 to 1783, this two-story clapboard dwelling, which he designed and built, was the residence of General Nathanael Greene, who was among the most important generals in the Continental Army.

Greene began as ...

Finley Homestead (Private)

This two story frame vernacular structure was the home of Adam Finley, a free African American artisan. Finley acquired the property in 1883. His grandson, Dr. Harold E. Finley was a nationally known zoologist.

Information provided by Florida Department of State.

National Historic Landmark-Justin S Morrill Homestead

National Historical Landmarks

Justin S Morrill Home

Morrill was responsible for the Morrill Acts (1862, 1890), which provided for land grant colleges. He designed and constructed this Gothic Revival house in 1848-51, and retained ownership while in the Congress as a Representative ...

National Historic Landmark-Calvin Coolidge Homestead

Calvin Coolidge Homestead District

Calvin Coolidge was born here in 1872 in the house attached to his father's general store. In 1876 the family moved across the street and it was here in 1923 that Coolidge was sworn in as president ...

Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation

The Thomas Evans Haile family moved from Camden, South Carolina to this site in 1854 to establish a 1,500-acre Sea Island cotton plantation which they named Kanapaha. Built by enslaved black craftsmen, the main house was completed in 1856.

During ...

National Historic Landmark-Homestead Jacskon Ward Historic Dist.

This fine 19th century residential neighborhood is significant as the hub of Black professional and entrepreneurial activities in the city and the State. Fraternal organizations, cooperative banks, insurance companies and other commercial and social institutions that figure prominently in that ...

Homestead

Homestead, the second oldest city in Miami-Dade County, sits near the tip of peninsular Florida, thirty miles south of Miami. Located in a precarious natural environment, bounded on the west by Everglades National Park, and to the south and east ...

Zephaniah Phillips' Homestead Site

Rancho de Juaquin

In 1783, while updating Gulf Coast navigational charts, Jose Antonio de Evia (b. 1740), a Spanish naval officer, visited a Spanish fishing camp located on this site. He called it “Rancho de Juaquin.” Artifacts from the 18th ...

Site of First Houston Homestead

The first hickory log cabin built by John C. Houston, original settler of Eau Gallie, was erected in this area. Houston came here in 1859 with his older sons and 10 slaves. He had served in the U.S. Army during ...

Homestead Strike

On the morning of July 6, 1892, on orders of the Carnegie Steel Co., 300 Pinkerton agents attempted to

land near here; strikers, citizens repulsed them. Seven workers, three Pinkertons were killed. 8,000 state militia arrived July 12; by November the ...