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  National Monument

  Dinosaur National Monument

  Colorado, Utah

  150 million years ago, dinosaurs roamed here. Their fossils are still embedded in the rocks. Today, mountains, desert, and rivers flowing in canyons support a variet…

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  National Historical Reserve

  Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve

  Washington

  This stunning landscape on the Salish Sea, with its rich farmland and promising seaport, lured the earliest American pioneers north of the Columbia River to Ebey’s L…

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  National Monument

  Effigy Mounds National Monument

  Iowa

  The mounds preserved here are considered sacred by many Americans, especially the Monument's 20 culturally associated American Indian tribes. A visit offers opportun…

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  National Historic Trail

  El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail

  New Mexico, Texas

  Travel along El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail to experience and learn from a complicated legacy of 300 years of conflict, cooperation, and cu…

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  National Monument

  El Malpais National Monument

  New Mexico

  The richly diverse volcanic landscape of El Malpais (el-mal-pie-EES) offers solitude, recreation, and adventure. Explore incredible geologic features such as young l…

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  National Monument

  El Morro National Monument

  New Mexico

  Imagine the refreshment of finding water after days of dusty travel. A reliable waterhole hidden at the base of a sandstone bluff made El Morro (the headland) a popu…

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  National Historic Site

  Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

  New York

  Visit the home of Eleanor Roosevelt. Here, Franklin and Eleanor entertained friends, the press, activists, and official state visitors in the relaxed atmosphere of V…

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  National Park

  Everglades National Park

  Florida

  Established in 1947 as the first national park created for its biodiversity, Everglades National Park protects 1.5 million acres of wetland, forest, and marine habit…

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  National Historical Park

  First State National Historical Park

  Delaware, Pennsylvania

  Famous as the First State to ratify the Constitution, Delaware was born out of a conflict among three world powers for dominance of the Delaware Valley. From this be…

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  National Memorial

  Flight 93 National Memorial

  Pennsylvania

  On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, the U.S. came under attack when four commercial airliners were hijacked and used to strike targets on the ground. Nearly 3,00…

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  National Monument

  Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

  Colorado

  Beneath a grassy mountain valley in central Colorado lies one of the richest and most diverse fossil deposits in the world. Petrified redwood stumps up to 14 feet wi…

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  National Historic Site

  Fort Bowie National Historic Site

  Arizona

  For nearly 25 years, Fort Bowie stood at the crossroads of the Chiricahua Apache's fight to defend their ancestral homeland and the U.S. Army's westward expansion. T…

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  National Historic Site

  Fort Davis National Historic Site

  Texas

  Fort Davis is one of the best surviving examples of an Indian Wars' frontier military post in the Southwest. From 1854 to 1891, Fort Davis was strategically located…

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  National Battlefield

  Fort Donelson National Battlefield

  Kentucky, Tennessee

  Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant was becoming quite famous as he wrote these words following the surrender of Confederate Fort Donelson on Sunday, February 16, 186…

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  Park

  Fort Foote Park

  Maryland

  Fort Foote was constructed in 1863 atop Rozier's Bluff to strengthen the ring of fortifications that encircled Washington, D.C. Two of the Guns that protected Washin…

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  National Monument

  Fort Frederica National Monument

  Georgia

  War was imminent as James Oglethorpe established Fort Frederica in 1736, to help protect the British colonies from the Spanish in Florida. Fort Frederica illustrates…

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  National Monument and Historic Shrine

  Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine

  Maryland

  by the dawn's early light, a large red, white and blue banner? Whose broad stripes and bright stars... were so gallantly streaming...over Fort McHenry! The valiant d…

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  National Monument

  Fort Monroe National Monument

  Virginia

  Fort Monroe's story spans from prehistory to the 2000s. Kecoughtan Indians occupied Old Point Comfort before the arrival of English colonists. The first enslaved Afr…

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  National Battlefield

  Fort Necessity National Battlefield

  Pennsylvania

  The battle at Fort Necessity in the summer of 1754 was the opening action of the French and Indian War. This war was a clash of British, French and American Indian c…

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  National Monument

  Fort Pulaski National Monument

  Georgia

  For much of the 19th century, masonry fortifications were the United States’ main defense against overseas enemies. However, during the Civil War, new technology pro…

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  National Monument

  Fort Stanwix National Monument

  New York

  For centuries, the Oneida Carrying Place, a six-mile portage connecting the Mohawk River and Wood Creek, served as a vital link for those traveling by water from the…

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  National Monument

  Fossil Butte National Monument

  Wyoming

  In the ridges of southwest Wyoming are some of the best-preserved fossils in the world. They tell the story of ancient life in a warm, wet environment in and around…

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  National Military Park

  Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park

  Virginia

  Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, this is America's battleground, where the Civil War roared to its bloody climax. No place more vividl…

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  National Historic Site

  Friendship Hill National Historic Site

  Pennsylvania

  Albert Gallatin is best remembered for his thirteen year tenure as Secretary of the Treasury during the Jefferson and Madison administrations. In that time he reduce…