Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Grove on the Potomac

Shortly after Lyndon Baines Johnson died in January 1973, some of his friends began to consider creating a national memorial to the 36th president of the United States in Washington, DC. They decided that a grove of trees, a ...

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

"This is my country, the hill country of Texas. And through the years when time would permit, here is where I would always return, to the Pedernales River, the scenes of my childhood.” - LBJ

Lyndon Baines Johnson, the ...

John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site

When John F. Kennedy was inaugurated 35th president of the United States, he was the youngest person and the only Catholic ever elected to the nation’s highest office. Elected with the narrowest of margins by a nation fearful under ...

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site consists of four units: the Visitor Center Complex, which includes a museum and the Tailor Shop; an early Johnson home; the Andrew Johnson Homestead; and the Andrew Johnson National Cemetery. Together they represent ...

John Tyler Home (Sherwood Forest)

John Tyler bought this 1,200-acre plantation in 1842, when he was still serving as 10th president of the United States, and it was his retirement home from 1845 until his death in 1862. He expanded the original 1780 frame ...

John Brown's Headquarters

This building, also known as the Kennedy Farmhouse, was the headquarters from which John Brown (1800-1859) planned and executed his raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry in October 1859. Along with a small band of followers, he ...

Nathan and Mary Johnson House

Nathan and Mary Johnson were free blacks living in New Bedford, Massachusetts, who owned a block of properties including their longtime home and the neighboring old Friends meetinghouse. Nathan Johnson was an active abolitionist who assisted numerous fugitive slaves, ...

John P. and Lydia Edwards House

As abolitionist Gerrit Smith's land agent, friend, and colleague and as an engineer committed to public service, John Benjamin Edwards shaped Oswego's economic and cultural development for over sixty years. For at least sixteen of those years, he and ...

John Brown Farm and Gravesite

John Brown (1800--1859) considered this farm, a National Historic Landmark and New York State Historic Site, his home during the ten years leading up to the infamous 1859 raid on Harper's Ferrywhere he was killed. He requested to be ...

Johnson House

The Johnson House, a National Historic Landmark, is significant for its role in the antislavery movement and the Underground Railroad. Philadelphia, especially the Germantown section of the city, was a center of the 19th-century American movement to abolish slavery, ...