National Historic Site (United States)

Salem Maritime National Historic Site was the first National Historic Site to be established in the U.S.

National Historic Site (NHS) is a designation for an officially recognized area of national historic significance in the United States. An NHS usually contains a single historical feature directly associated with its subject. A related but separate designation, the National Historical Park (NHP), is an area that generally extends beyond single properties or buildings, and its resources include a mix of historic and later structures and sometimes significant natural features.

As of 2020, there are 61 NHPs and 85 NHSs. Most NHPs and NHSs are managed by the National Park Service (NPS). Some federally designated sites are owned by local authorities or privately owned, but are authorized to request assistance from the NPS as affiliated areas. Two properties are managed by the U.S. Forest Service: Grey Towers National Historic Site, and Camp Hale National Historic Landscape.^[1]

As of October 15, 1966, all historic areas, including NHPs and NHSs, in the NPS are automatically listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). There are also about 90,000 NRHP sites, the large majority of which are neither owned nor managed by the NPS. Of these, about 2,500^[2] have been designated at the highest status as National Historic Landmark (NHL) sites.

National Historic Sites[]

National Historic Sites are generally federally owned and administered properties, though some remain under private or local government ownership. There are currently 85 NHSs, of which 74 are official NPS units, 9 are NPS affiliated areas, and 2 are managed by the U.S. Forest Service.

Derived from the Historic Sites Act of 1935, a number of NHSs were established by United States Secretaries of the Interior, but most have been authorized by acts of Congress. In 1937, the first NHS was created in Salem, Massachusetts, in order to preserve and interpret the maritime history of New England and the United States.

National historic sites

Name	Image	Location	Area[3]	Description
Allegheny Portage Railroad		Pennsylvania	1,284.27 acres (5.1973 km2)	[4]
Andersonville		Georgia	515.61 acres (2.0866 km2)	[5]
Andrew Johnson		Tennessee	16.68 acres (0.0675 km2)	[6]
Bent's Old Fort		Colorado	798.54 acres (3.2316 km2)	[7]
Boston African American		Massachusetts	0.59 acres (0.0024 km2)	The Beacon Hill neighborhood was home to most of Boston's Black population before the Civil War, much of whom were slaves who escaped via the Underground Railroad. Sites on the Black Heritage Trail include the 1806 African Meeting House, the oldest standing black church in the United States; the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial; schools; and homes of several abolitionists.[8]
Brown v. Board of Education		Kansas	1.85 acres (0.0075 km2)	[9]
Camp Hale National Historic Landscape		Colorado	28,676 acres (116.05 km2)	This first and only National Historic Landscape is also designated a National Historic Site, managed by the US Forest Service, as it is surrounded by White River National Forest. Camp Hale was a US Army training base in mountain warfare from 1942 to 1945, including skiing, mountain climbing, cold-weather survival, and weapons operations.
Carl Sandburg Home		North Carolina	268.49 acres (1.0865 km2)	[10]
Carter G. Woodson Home		Washington, D.C.	0.15 acres (0.00061 km2)	Carter G. Woodson, the pioneering historian, author, and journalist who founded Black History Month, lived in this three-story rowhouse from 1922 until his death in 1950. There he operated the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History and published the published the Negro History Bulletin and the Journal of Negro History.[11]
Charles Pinckney		South Carolina	28.45 acres (0.1151 km2)	[12]
Chicago Portage (affiliated area)		Illinois
Chimney Rock (affiliated area)		Nebraska
Christiansted		U.S. Virgin Islands	27.15 acres (0.1099 km2)	[13]
Clara Barton		Maryland	8.59 acres (0.0348 km2)	[14]
Edgar Allan Poe		Pennsylvania	0.52 acres (0.0021 km2)	[15]
Eisenhower		Pennsylvania	690.46 acres (2.7942 km2)	[16]
Eleanor Roosevelt		New York	180.50 acres (0.7305 km2)	[17]
Eugene O'Neill		California	13.19 acres (0.0534 km2)	[18]
Fallen Timbers Battlefield and Fort Miamis (affiliated area)		Ohio		[19]
First Ladies		Ohio	0.46 acres (0.0019 km2)	[20]
Ford's Theatre		Washington, D.C.	0.30 acres (0.0012 km2)	President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865 while watching a performance of Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. He was brought across the street to the Petersen House where he died the next morning. The theatre continues to produce live plays and has a museum of artifacts related to Lincoln, and the Petersen House, the first historic home purchased by the U.S. government, is furnished as it was the night Lincoln died.[21]
Fort Bowie		Arizona	999.45 acres (4.0446 km2)	[22]
Fort Davis		Texas	523.00 acres (2.1165 km2)	[23]
Fort Laramie		Wyoming	873.11 acres (3.5334 km2)	[24]
Fort Larned		Kansas	718.39 acres (2.9072 km2)	[25]
Fort Point		California	29.00 acres (0.1174 km2)	Fort Point was built in the 1850s to defend San Francisco Bay. It never saw battle as the only such fort on the West Coast, but the masonry structure was preserved when the Golden Gate Bridge was built directly over it in the 1930s.[26]
Fort Raleigh		North Carolina	515.73 acres (2.0871 km2)	[27]
Fort Scott		Kansas	20.11 acres (0.0814 km2)	[28]
Fort Smith		Arkansas, Oklahoma	75.00 acres (0.3035 km2)	[29]
Fort Union Trading Post		Montana, North Dakota	440.14 acres (1.7812 km2)	[30]
Fort Vancouver		Washington, Oregon	206.72 acres (0.8366 km2)	The Hudson's Bay Company had their northwest headquarters at Fort Vancouver, where they operated the fur trade and oversaw vast territory in the 1820s to 1840s. A reconstructed fort shows life in the Columbia District. It is adjacent to the Pearson Air Museum and the U.S. Army's former Vancouver Barracks, and the home of HBC superintendent John McLoughlin is in Oregon City.[31]
Frederick Douglass		Washington, D.C.	8.57 acres (0.0347 km2)	Frederick Douglass was a prominent abolitionist who gave speeches and wrote books about his time enslaved and social reform. He spent the last 17 years of his life at this home, called Cedar Hill, in the Anacostia neighborhood, where he wrote an autobiography and was a member of D.C. society. The house is restored with many of Douglass's original belongings.[32]
Frederick Law Olmsted		Massachusetts	7.21 acres (0.0292 km2)	[33]
Friendship Hill		Pennsylvania	674.56 acres (2.7298 km2)	[34]
Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church (affiliated area)		Pennsylvania		[35]
Grant–Kohrs Ranch		Montana	1,618.43 acres (6.5496 km2)	[36]
Grey Towers		Pennsylvania		[37]
Hampton		Maryland	62.04 acres (0.2511 km2)	[38]
Harry S. Truman		Missouri	12.59 acres (0.0509 km2)	[39]
Herbert Hoover		Iowa	186.80 acres (0.7560 km2)	[40]
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt		New York	838.43 acres (3.3930 km2)	[41]
Honouliuli		Hawaii	154.46 acres (0.6251 km2)	[42]
Hopewell Furnace		Pennsylvania	848.06 acres (3.4320 km2)	[43]
Hubbell Trading Post		Arizona	160.09 acres (0.6479 km2)	[44]
James A. Garfield		Ohio	7.82 acres (0.0316 km2)	[45]
Jamestown (affiliated area)		Virginia
John Fitzgerald Kennedy		Massachusetts	0.09 acres (0.00036 km2)	[46]
John Muir		California	344.14 acres (1.3927 km2)	[47]
Kate Mullany (affiliated area)		New York
Knife River Indian Villages		North Dakota	1,751.00 acres (7.0860 km2)	[48]
Lincoln Home		Illinois	12.24 acres (0.0495 km2)	[49]
Little Rock Central High School		Arkansas	28.22 acres (0.1142 km2)	[50]
Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters		Massachusetts	1.98 acres (0.0080 km2)	[51]
Lower East Side Tenement (affiliated area)		New York		[52]
Maggie L. Walker		Virginia	1.29 acres (0.0052 km2)	[53]
Manzanar		California	813.81 acres (3.2934 km2)	[54]
Martin Van Buren		New York	284.93 acres (1.1531 km2)	[55]
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House		Washington, D.C.	0.07 acres (0.00028 km2)	[56]
Minidoka		Idaho	396.30 acres (1.6038 km2)	The Minidoka War Relocation Center was the first of ten camps where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II. More than 13,000 incarcerees stayed here at hastily built barracks in the high desert, working on camp construction, at its farm, or on the Anderson Ranch Dam. The Bainbridge Island Japanese American Exclusion Memorial, commemorating where 276 residents were removed from their homes, is a unit of Minidoka NHS.[57]
Minuteman Missile		South Dakota	43.80 acres (0.1773 km2)	[58]
Nicodemus		Kansas	4.39 acres (0.0178 km2)	[59]
Ninety Six		South Carolina	1,021.94 acres (4.1356 km2)	[60]
Pennsylvania Avenue		Washington, D.C.	17.61 acres (0.0713 km2)	The neighborhood around Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the United States Capitol has many historically and architecturally significant buildings and sites, including the Treasury Building, Old Post Office, National World War I Memorial, Freedom Plaza, Federal Triangle, Ford's Theatre, the Old Patent Office Building, the National Building Museum, and Judiciary Square.[61]
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home		Arkansas	0.68 acres (0.0028 km2)	[62]
Puʻukoholā Heiau		Hawaii	86.24 acres (0.3490 km2)	This stone temple was built by Kamehameha the Great in 1791 following a prophesy that would allow him to conquer all of the Hawaiian islands. At this site his cousin Keōua was slain, ending the civil war on Hawaiʻi. John Young governed the island from its first European-style house nearby while Kamehameha unified Hawaii.[63]
Sagamore Hill		New York	83.02 acres (0.3360 km2)	[64]
Saint Paul's Church		New York	6.13 acres (0.0248 km2)	[65]
Salem Maritime		Massachusetts	9.02 acres (0.0365 km2)	[66]
San Juan		Puerto Rico	75.13 acres (0.3040 km2)	[67]
Sand Creek Massacre		Colorado	12,583.34 acres (50.9230 km2)	[68]
Saugus Iron Works		Massachusetts	8.51 acres (0.0344 km2)	[69]
Springfield Armory		Massachusetts	54.93 acres (0.2223 km2)	[70]
Steamtown		Pennsylvania	62.48 acres (0.2528 km2)	[71]
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace		New York	0.11 acres (0.00045 km2)	President Theodore Roosevelt was born at the original townhouse at this site in 1858 and lived there until 1872. Although it was demolished in 1916, the brownstone was reconstructed a few years later after his death, restored with original and reproduced furnishings as a museum about the statesman and his youth.[72]
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural		New York	1.18 acres (0.0048 km2)	[73]
Thomas Cole (affiliated area)		New York		[74]
Thomas Stone		Maryland	328.25 acres (1.3284 km2)	[75]
Touro Synagogue (affiliated area)		Rhode Island		[76]
Tuskegee Airmen		Alabama	89.68 acres (0.3629 km2)	[77]
Tuskegee Institute		Alabama	57.92 acres (0.2344 km2)	[78]
Ulysses S. Grant		Missouri	9.60 acres (0.0388 km2)	[79]
Vanderbilt Mansion		New York	211.65 acres (0.8565 km2)	[80]
Washita Battlefield		Oklahoma	315.20 acres (1.2756 km2)	[81]
Whitman Mission		Washington	138.53 acres (0.5606 km2)	[82]
William Howard Taft		Ohio	3.64 acres (0.0147 km2)	[83]

International Historic Site[]

There is one International Historic Site in the US park system, a unique designation given to Saint Croix Island, Maine, on the New Brunswick border. The title, given to the site of the first permanent French settlement in America, recognizes the influence that it has had on both Canada and the United States. The NPS does not distinguish among these designations in terms of their preservation or management policies.

National Historical Parks[]

In the United States, sites are "historic", while parks are "historical". The NPS explains that a site can be intrinsically historic, while a park is a modern legal invention. As such, a park is not itself "historic", but can be called "historical" when it contains historic resources. It is the resources which are historic, not the park.^[84] There are 61 national historical parks.

National historical parks

Name	Image	Location	Area[85]	Description
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace		Kentucky	344.50 acres (1.3941 km2)	President Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 in a one-room log cabin, which was reconstructed in a neoclassical memorial building. He lived until age seven on another farm nearby before moving to Indiana.[86]
Adams		Massachusetts	23.82 acres (0.0964 km2)	The eleven buildings at this farm were home to United States presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams and several generations of their family. They include the John Adams Birthplace and John Quincy Adams Birthplace, the Stone Library, Peacefield mansion, and United First Parish Church, where they are buried.[87]
Appomattox Court House		Virginia	1,774.60 acres (7.1816 km2)	The end of the Civil War was initiated on April 9, 1865, with the Union victory at the Battle of Appomattox Court House, after which Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at the McLean House. Several hiking trails lead to historic cabins and other marked sites.[88]
Blackstone River Valley		Rhode Island, Massachusetts	1,489.00 acres (6.0258 km2)	Some of the earliest textile mills in America were built in the Blackstone Valley, developing the area into an industrial leader with several company towns connected by the Blackstone Canal. Five historic districts include preserved mill complexes.[89]
Boston		Massachusetts	43.82 acres (0.1773 km2)	The Freedom Trail links several sites that made Boston important during the American Revolution. These include the Old State House, where the Boston Massacre took place; the Old North Church; the Old South Meeting House, where the Boston Tea Party was organized; Charlestown Navy Yard, home to the USS Constitution, and the 221 ft (67 m) Bunker Hill Monument at the site of the Battle of Bunker Hill.[90]
Cane River Creole		Louisiana	205.50 acres (0.8316 km2)	The Oakland and Magnolia Plantations represent the history of French Creole culture of Northern Louisiana. Generations of enslaved and tenant workers farmed cotton here, with 65 remaining buildings.[91]
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove		Virginia	3,704.96 acres (14.9934 km2)	At the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek, Union General Philip Sheridan's army fended off the last Confederate attempt to invade the North. The nearby Belle Grove Plantation served as Sheridan's headquarters and exhibits the history of farming and slavery in the Shenandoah Valley.[92]
Chaco Culture		New Mexico	33,960.19 acres (137.4320 km2)	This canyon site was inhabited from the 9th to 12th centuries by the Ancestral Puebloans, who built the largest pre-colonial buildings in the US, including the great houses Pueblo Bonito and Chetro Ketl. Their architecture, archaeological artifacts, and petroglyphs, show the sophistication of this former economic center.[93]
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal		District of Columbia, Maryland, West Virginia	19,617.37 acres (79.3887 km2)	The 184 mi (296 km) Chesapeake and Ohio Canal shipped coal and other cargo down the Potomac River from Cumberland, Maryland, to Georgetown, Washington, D.C. from 1831 to 1924. Its towpath, alongside many preserved locks, is now a hiking and cycling trail, with more strenuous trails at Great Falls. It is also part of Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail.[94]
Colonial		Virginia	8,675.04 acres (35.1066 km2)	Founded in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in North America and served as the colonial capital until 1699. Historic Jamestown preserves its archaelogical ruins and is connected by the Colonial Parkway to the Yorktown Battlefield, where in 1781 George Washington's Continental Army defeated the British in the Siege of Yorktown, the last major battle of the Revolutionary War.[95]
Cumberland Gap		Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia	24,546.83 acres (99.3375 km2)	The Cumberland Gap of the Appalachian Mountains was a major passageway for Native Americans and later European settlers between the East Coast and the interior. Called the "first doorway of the west", the park includes the ridge of the Cumberland Mountains, the Gap Cave, and the Hensley Settlement.[96]
Dayton Aviation Heritage		Ohio	110.56 acres (0.4474 km2)	Dayton, Ohio, was home to Orville and Wilbur Wright, who invented powered flight. This multi-site park includes their Wright Cycle Company shop, Huffman Prairie Flying Field, where they conducted test flights, the Wright Company airplane factory, Orville's home Hawthorn Hill, and the Wright Brothers Aviation Center, as well as the Paul Laurence Dunbar House, home of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar[97]
First State		Delaware, Pennsylvania	1,409.22 acres (5.7029 km2)	Delaware was the first state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, and this park features several sites dating to the colonial era. These include New Castle Court House, the first capitol of the state; Fort Christina and the Old Swedes Church, site of the first Swedish colony in America; Dover Green; the John Dickinson House, the plantation owned by founding father John Dickinson; and Brandywine Valley nature reserve.[98]
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie		South Carolina	232.52 acres (0.9410 km2)	In April 1861 the South Carolina militia bombarded Fort Sumter, build on an artificial island in Charleston Harbor, initiating the Civil War. During asecond battle in 1863 Union forces largely destroyed the fort, which was later rebuilt. Nearby Fort Moultrie, first built in 1776, defended Charleston from the British in the Battle of Sullivan's Island, and its palmetto log construction is represented on the Flag of South Carolina.[99]
George Rogers Clark		Indiana	26.17 acres (0.1059 km2)	George Rogers Clark sacked the British Fort Sackville on the Wabash River in 1779 during the Illinois campaign of the Revolutionary War. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated a memorical to this victory in 1936. The circular domed Classical-style memorial has a bronze statue of Clark and seven murals depicting the events and their aftermath.[100]
Golden Spike		Utah	2,735.28 acres (11.0693 km2)	The rirst transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869 when the Union Pacific Railroad from Iowa connected with the Central Pacific Railroad from California at Promontory Summit. Leland Stanford ceremoniously drove the golden spike to join the final rails. Replica Jupiter and No. 119 locomotives on rebuilt rails are used in reenactment events at the park. An auto tour and a hiking trail follow routes of tracklaying race of 1869.[101]
Harpers Ferry		West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland	3,669.19 acres (14.8487 km2)	In 1859 abolitionist John Brown conducted a raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, a prelude to the Civil War; he was executed and became a martyr. John Brown's Fort remains in the historic lower town in West Virginia. Hiking trails in all three states have overlooks of the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers. The park also has the remains of Storer College, industrial ruins, and Civil War batteries.[102]
Harriet Tubman		New York	31.50 acres (0.1275 km2)	Harriet Tubman, a leading abolitionist and conductor in the Underground Railroad, moved to Auburn, New York, in 1859, where she continued to shelter Blacks moving north. The park features her residence, the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church she attended, and the Tubman Home for the Aged she founded for elderly African Americans.[103]
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad		Maryland	480.00 acres (1.9425 km2)	Harriet Tubman, after escaping slavery herself in 1849, guided 70 enslaved people from the Eastern Shore of Maryland to freedom during 13 trips. The fields, marshes, and woodlands of the park include the site of her childhood home, several farms sites she was forced to work at, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center, and a scenic byway.[104]
Homestead		Nebraska	210.45 acres (0.8517 km2)	[105]
Hopewell Culture		Ohio	1,775.78 acres (7.1863 km2)	[106]
Independence		Pennsylvania	44.87 acres (0.1816 km2)	The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776 and the Constitution was drafted in 1787 at Independence Hall, then the Pennsylvania capitol in Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell resides across the street, and other historic buildings include the First Bank of the United States, Carpenters' Hall, and Congress Hall.[107]
Jean Lafitte		Louisiana	25,875.86 acres (104.7159 km2)	[108]
Jimmy Carter		Georgia	78.35 acres (0.3171 km2)	[109]
Kalaupapa		Hawaii	10,778.88 acres (43.6206 km2)	[110]
Kaloko-Honokōhau		Hawaii	1,163.05 acres (4.7067 km2)	This coastal park includes two fishponds and a fish trap used in Ancient Hawaiian aquaculture and brackish anchialine pools with ‘ōpae‘ula shrimp. Lava flows lead down to the Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail, running along the beach and by ruins of an ancient heiau.[111]
Keweenaw		Michigan	1,870.00 acres (7.5676 km2)	[112]
Klondike Gold Rush		Alaska, Washington	12,996.49 acres (52.5949 km2)	After gold was found at the Klondike River in 1896, 100,000 prospectors journeyed to the Yukon for the Klondike Gold Rush, most taking a route through Skagway, Alaska, along the Chilkoot Trail, which can still be hiked today, or the White Pass Trail.[113] The Seattle unit in Pioneer Square tells the city's history as a boomtown when prospectors passed through and bought their provisions.[114]
Lewis and Clark		Oregon, Washington	3,410.15 acres (13.8004 km2)	After crossing the continent to the Pacific Ocean, members of the Corps of Discovery Expedition spent the winter of 1805–1806 at Fort Clatsop, which was reconstructed from William Clark's journals. Lewis and Clark documented the nature and geography around the mouth of the Columbia River, including at the affiliated Ecola and Cape Disappointment State Parks.[115]
Lowell		Massachusetts	141.71 acres (0.5735 km2)	[116]
Lyndon B. Johnson		Texas	1,571.71 acres (6.3605 km2)	President Lyndon B. Johnson spent much of his life here in the Hill Country, where visitors can tour his reconstructed birthplace, boyhood home, and ranch. The still-working ranch was Johnson's Little White House where he spent a fifth of his presidency working and hosting guests. It also has the plane used as Air Force One.[117]
Manhattan Project		New Mexico, Tennessee, Washington	113.61 acres (0.4598 km2)	[118]
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller		Vermont	643.07 acres (2.6024 km2)	[119]
Martin Luther King Jr.		Georgia	39.17 acres (0.1585 km2)	Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in a home in Sweet Auburn, Atlanta, and succeeded his father as pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church down the street. After his 1968 assassination, the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the site of his and his widow's tombs, was founded next door to the church. The historic district also includes the Fire Station No. 6 and period shotgun houses.[120]
Minute Man		Massachusetts	1,027.76 acres (4.1592 km2)	[121]
Morristown		New Jersey	1,710.72 acres (6.9230 km2)	[122]
Natchez		Mississippi	119.75 acres (0.4846 km2)	[123]
New Bedford Whaling		Massachusetts	34.00 acres (0.1376 km2)	[124]
New Orleans Jazz		Louisiana	5.13 acres (0.0208 km2)	[125]
Nez Perce		Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington	4,564.93 acres (18.4736 km2)	[126]
Ocmulgee Mounds		Georgia	3,401.92 acres (13.7671 km2)	People of the Mississippian culture built several large earthworks along the Ocmulgee River around 900–1100 CE, including ceremonial temples, platform mounds, and earth lodges. In the 1930s, the largest archaeological dig in U.S. history excavated millions of artifacts dating to more than 14,000 years ago. The park also has trails through forests and wetlands rich with wildlife.[127]
Palo Alto Battlefield		Texas	3,426.87 acres (13.8681 km2)	[128]
Paterson Great Falls		New Jersey	51.33 acres (0.2077 km2)	[129]
Pecos		New Mexico	6,693.49 acres (27.0876 km2)	[130]
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau		Hawaii	419.80 acres (1.6989 km2)	This "place of refuge" provided protection to defeated warriors and those who broke the kapu, or sacred laws of ancient Hawaiʻi. A long masonry wall separates the ceremonial site from the Royal Grounds, which includes the reconstructed Hale o Keawe, a heiau that was a mausoleum for local aliʻi, or high chiefs. The Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail passes through the park, alongside cliffs and volcanic tide pools.[131]
Reconstruction Era		South Carolina	64.99 acres (0.2630 km2)	[132]
Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front		California	145.19 acres (0.5876 km2)	[133]
Saint-Gaudens		New Hampshire	190.75 acres (0.7719 km2)	[134]
Ste. Genevieve		Missouri	16.91 acres (0.0684 km2)	[135]
Salt River Bay		U.S. Virgin Islands	989.42 acres (4.0040 km2)	[136]
San Antonio Missions		Texas	947.77 acres (3.8355 km2)	[137]
San Francisco Maritime		California	49.86 acres (0.2018 km2)	This maritime museum has a collection of historic vessels including the steam ferry Eureka, the world's largest wooden ship; the square rig sailing ship Balclutha, schooners, and tugboats.[138]
San Juan Island		Washington	2,145.56 acres (8.6828 km2)	With the U.S. and Great Britain engaged in a boundary dispute over the San Juan Islands, the killing of a pig in 1859 led both sides to form military camps on opposite ends of San Juan Island. The bloodless Pig War ended 13 years later when the U.S. was decided the owner of the islands. Both the American and English camps have surviving buildings, developed trails, and shoreline.[139]
Saratoga		New York	3,579.14 acres (14.4843 km2)	[140]
Sitka		Alaska	116.29 acres (0.4706 km2)	[141]
Thomas Edison		New Jersey	21.25 acres (0.0860 km2)	[142]
Tumacácori		Arizona	360.32 acres (1.4582 km2)	[143]
Valley Forge		Pennsylvania	3,468.54 acres (14.0367 km2)	The Continental Army was encamped at Valley Forge during the winter and spring of 1777–1778, where they were led by General George Washington and trained by Baron von Steuben in preparation for the Revolutionary War. The site is preserved with Washington's Headquarters, reconstructed cabins displaying soldiers' hardship, and the 1917 National Memorial Arch.[144]
War in the Pacific		Guam	2,030.65 acres (8.2177 km2)	This park commemorates the bravery and sacrifice of those who participated in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Park units include the Asan and Agat Invasion Beaches where U.S. troops landed in 1944 after Japanese occupation, the Piti Guns and other Japanese defensive sites, and memorials.[145]
Weir Farm		Connecticut	74.20 acres (0.3003 km2)	[146]
Women's Rights		New York	7.44 acres (0.0301 km2)	[147]

International Historical Park[]

Klondike Gold Rush International Historical Park was formally established by the United States and Canada in 1998, the year of the centennial of the gold rush the park commemorates. The park comprises Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park in Washington and Alaska, and Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site in British Columbia. It was this trail which so many prospectors took in hopes of making their fortunes in the Klondike River district of Yukon.

See also[]

• National Historic Sites (Canada)
• List of World Heritage Sites in the United States
• List of areas in the United States National Park System
• List of national monuments of the United States
• List of national memorials of the United States

References[]

External links[]

Wikivoyage has a travel guide for National historic areas in the United States.

• Designation of National Park System Units