National Historic Landmark-Rudyard Kipling Home

National Historical Landmarks-Naulakha-Rudyard Kipling House

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), the first English language author to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1907), had this house and outbuildings built for his American bride.

Despite their brief residence in the house(1893-1896), Kipling wrote several ...

National Historic Landmark-Marsh-Billings Historical Park

National Historical Landmarks-George Perkins Marsh Boyhood Home

Built in 1805 by his father, this was Marsh's home until he left for Dartmouth College in 1816. Marsh, a lawyer, philologist, and diplomat, made a significant contribution to the conservation movement in America ...

National Historic Landmark-Mount Independence

National Historical Landmarks-Mount Independence

This site, on Lake Champlain opposite Fort Ticonderoga, was fortified by Colonial troops in 1776 to prevent the British from penetrating to the Hudson River through the Champlain Valley.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks

Photo http://www.historicvermont.org/mountindependence/trail_dedication.htm

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 ...

Saint Michael's Catholic Church

Historic Palafox Business District

The current Gothic revival building at 21 North Palafox dates to 1886, but Saint Michael's history in Pensacola goes much further back than 125 years. Saint Michael's traces its history to 1559 when Spanish settlers under don ...

Woodland Park

Woodland Park was located near the city of Sanford on the shores of Lake Monroe. It was run by owner Victor Schmelz and his son from 1910 to the 1920s. In 1909, Schmelz installed an eighty by thirty foot swimming ...

Turpentine Industry

Areas of Seminole County were used for turpentine production from the 1870s until the 1930s because of the numerous pine trees available for harvesting in the area. The industry's production process took place in two major steps. First, large numbers ...

Steamboats and Sanford

The marker "Steamboats" is located near the modern day Sanford docks and waterfront. Steamboats began appearing on the St. Johns River around 1840 and reached their peak in the 1870s and 1880s. It was near here that many nineteenth century ...

Sanford Residential Historic District

The Sanford Residential Historic District contains buildings that date from the 1880s to the 1930s, when Sanford was a prominent agricultural and transportation center. While the district consists primarily of residential houses, there are also some commercial buildings, such as ...