National Historic Landmark - The Cabildo

The Cabildo stands adjacent to St. Louis Cathedral and was the headquarters for the Spanish Colonial Council, or Cabildo.

The original structure was destroyed during the Great New Orleans Fire of 1788, during which over 75% of the buildings in the ...

Museum of the Islands

Museum exhibits present the history of the Ten Thousand Islands along the southwest coast of Florida.

A mural and period artifacts provide an interpretation of the powerful Calusa culture that inhabited the islands 2,000 years ago. An extensive shell collection ...

The Holland Red Door Store

In 1860 James Holland purchased this land and built the general store that still stands today. Located at the intersection of the toll roads to Baltimore and Olney, the store was at the heart of a community that became known ...

Changes in the Land

Liberty State Park

Prior to 1860, the area surrounding you was mostly brackish waters, salt marshes and mudflats of a tidal estuary. Known to the native Lenape as Communipaw Cove, these wetlands were a rich source of fish, waterfowl and shellfish. ...

Restoration of the Land

Four hundred years ago, the Chesapeake Bay region abounded in forests, meadows, wetlands, and croplands. The National Museum of the American Indian restores these environments and is home to more than 27,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants representing 145 ...

Formal Southern Landscapes

Like Madison's high-style architecture, its formal landscapes were Southern translations of both prevalent trends and earlier traditions. Boxwood gardens were an antebellum landscape feature gracing many Madison homes. Parterres were a garden form developed in Renaissance France and originally inspired ...

The South Side of Ellis Island

Statue of Liberty Natl Mon/Ellis Island Immigration Museum

An Adventure in Stabilization

Ellis Island

The 29 buildings on the south side of Ellis Island comprise one of the largest hospitals to be built in the United States during the first decades of this ...

Fort Gibson: The Other Ellis Island Story

The stones you see here reveal yet another layer of the story of Ellis Island. This is the story of Fort Gibson, one of the earliest forts built after the American Revolution to protect New York Harbor. Discovered during the ...

The New Ferry Building – Ellis Island

Save America’s Treasures

Restoration of the New Ferry Building on Ellis Island is being supported in part by a Federal Save America’s Treasures award administered by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

New Ferry Building

In 1999, the Statue of Liberty ...

Shifting Sands: The Story of Rosalie Island

You’re now standing in the cove protected by Rosalie Island, the point of first landfall for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Maryland. Rosalie Island is actually not an island at all–it is a peninsula. Indeed it is not even a ...