Harrogate, Tennessee
This museum houses one of the nation's most diverse collections of books and artifacts of President Lincoln's life.Located on the beautiful campus of Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, the Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum houses one of the most diverse Lincoln and Civil War...
Quincy, Massachusetts
The park has two main sites: the Birthplaces of 2nd U.S. President John Adams and 6th U.S. President John Quincy Adams, and Peacefield including the “Old House,” home to four generations of the Adams family, and the Stone Library which contains more than 14,000 historic volumes.The park...
Branson, Missouri
With exhibits including a replica Oval Office, the museum showcases Presidential materials and collections relating to the history of the nation's Presidency and the democratic process.The museum offers a range of exhibits that trace the history of the American presidency. Visit the Oval Office,...
Greeneville, Tennessee
Once his home for 25 years, this site chronicles the life of President Andrew Johnson.The Andrew Johnson National Historic Site honors the life of the 17th President. Andrew Johnson's presidency, 1865-1869, illustrates the United States Constitution at work following President Lincoln's...
Charlottesville, Virginia
The 535-acre working farm was once owned by President James Monroe and his wife from 1793 to 1826. It continues to provide a unique representation of 19th-century American life.
At the urging of his good friend Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, the 5th U.S. president, bought the property adjacent to...
Fremont, North Carolina
This typical 19th-century family farm includes the main house, separate open-hearth kitchen, corn crib, and smokehouses. Found off the beaten path, two miles south of Fremont, the historic site features a mid-19th-century farmstead, including a house, kitchen, and outbuildings. The house is...
Baker, Florida
This museum merges local and living history, cataloguing pioneer artifacts and genealogical records.The Baker Block Museum specializes in local history. It has exhibits on a range of topics, from pioneer homelife to local military patriots, as well as a robust collection of historical documents and...
Charles City, Virginia
This historic plantation was the birthplace of Benjamin and William Harrison.One of Virginia's most historic plantations and the site of the first official Thanksgiving in 1619, Berkeley is also the birthplace of Benjamin Harrison, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and President William...
Knoxville, Tennessee
Signer of the Constitution and Territorial Governor Colonel Blount lived in this modest frontier mansion.Nestled in the center of Downtown Knoxville's government district, Blount Mansion offers history that is hard to miss. Here, among the towers of glass, steel and brick, sits a house - small by...
Plymouth, Vermont
Unique in American history, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in as President by his father, here in his boyhood home on August 3, 1923.The Coolidge Homestead is an important component of the activities of the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation. It is also the centerpiece of the President Calvin Coolidge...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Carpenters' Hall hosted the First Continental Congress in 1774 and was home to Franklin's Library Company, The American Philosophical Society, and the First and Second Banks of the United States.Since its founding, Carpenters’ House has been the home to numerous tenants in the arts, sciences...
Sullivan's Island, South Carolina
This remanent of Charles Pinckney's plantation preserves his story and the stories of the lives of enslaved African Americans on South Carolina Lowcountry plantations.Snee Farm, Pinckney’s coastal plantation, offers an opportunity to learn about the cultural environment that influenced...
Alexandria, Virginia
Located in Old Town Alexandria, this beautiful English country-style church was built by John Carlyle between 1767-1773.Christ Church was the first Episcopal Church in Alexandria and has played an important role in the life of the city since its completion by John Carlyle in 1773. The church was...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cited as the "finest Early American church," Christ Church was attended by and is now the final resting place for many of America's founding fathers.“No other church has played a more significant role in our nation’s birth”, according to historian David McCullough....
Staten Island, New York
Christopher Billopp's grand stone manor is named in memory of the 1776 conference convened at the House in an attempt to end the Revolutionary War.A captain in the Royal Navy, Billopp built this House around 1680 as the center of his 1,600-acre Manor of Bentley. The sophisticated, two-story...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This building served as the meeting place of the U. S. Congress from 1790 to 1800 and was also the site for the presidential inaugurations of George Washington and John Adam.Constructed in 1787 - 1789 as the Philadelphia County Court House, this building served as the meeting place of the U. S....
Port St. Joe, Florida
This museum is dedicated to Florida's first constitutional convention in then-boomtown Port St. Joe.A boomtown founded in 1835, St. Joseph competed with Apalachicola as a trading port on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The original settlement lasted only nine years, but during its short life the city...
Washington, District Of Columbia
A memorial island in the middle of an artificial lake has stones bearing the names and signatures of the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence.Constitution Gardens is a living legacy to the founding of the republic as well as an oasis in the midst of a city landscape. The 50...
Wayne, New Jersey
Begun in 1740 by Dirk Dey and completed by his son Colonel Theunis Dey, this mansion served as General George Washington’s headquarters in 1780. Living history events are regularly scheduled.Constructed between 1740-1750 by Dirck Dey, a Dutch-born planter, the mansion is an amalgam of Dutch...
Abilene, Kansas
Dwight D. Eisenhower's many military achievements are catalogued in the galleries at this museumVisitors can tour the nineteenth-century wood-frame house, located on its original site, where the Eisenhower's lived from 1898 until the death of the President's mother Ida in 1946. The Place of...
Hyde Park, New York
The cottage was Eleanor Roosevelt's political headquarters and permanent home after the death of her husband. It is the only National Historic Site dedicated to an American First Lady.Eleanor Roosevelt chose Val-Kill for her retreat, her office, her home, and her "laboratory" for social...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Although Benjamin Franklin's house was torn down after his death, the site was preserved and features an underground museum with a film and displays.Franklin Court was the site of the handsome brick home of Benjamin Franklin, who lived here while serving in the Continental Congress and the...
Hyde Park, New York
Built under President Roosevelt’s direction during 1939-40, FDR conceived it as an institution to preserve intact all of his papers from a lifetime of public service, his personal library, and his vast collection of memorabilia.The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library is the first of...
Washington, District Of Columbia
The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial commemorates the life and times of the 32nd American President, with particular emphasis on his leadership during the Great Depression and World War II."The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." These are the words of our 32nd President, a man...
Alexandria, Virginia
A historic tavern and museum dating from the years following the American Revolution and frequented by presidents and patriots.Enjoy a meal where George Washington used to drink and dine. Before heading home, visit the exhibits next door. The museum consists of a 1785 tavern and the 1792 City Hotel...
Lexington, Virginia
The museum dedicated to the life of General George C. Marshall also houses many of his papers in the research library.
This museum profiles one of the 20th century's greatest military and diplomatic leaders through exhibits related to the Marshall Era (1880-1960). Marshall led the Allied military...
Washington, District Of Columbia
George Mason, founding father and writer of the Virginia Declaration of Rights, is memorialized in West Potomac Park.The George Mason Memorial, dedicated on April 9, 2002, honors the little known but widely felt contributions of an important founding father. The memorial is located in West Potomac...
Colonial Beach, Virginia
George Washington's Birthplace burned down in 1779, but a 1936 excavation revealed the foundation, which has since been preserved.The Memorial House and Colonial Kitchen were constructed in 1931 to recreate the home in which George Washington was born. Typical of a moderately wealthy planter of the...
Gansevoort, New York
On July 23, 1885, shortly after completing his memoirs at the four-room Adirondack cottage, President Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer. It was in Joseph W. Drexel's Adirondack cottage that General Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer on July 23, 1885. President Grant arrived at the cottage...
Lewisburg, West Virginia
The Greenbrier Historical Society maintains the North House Museum and extensive records of the area's history and culture. Included in its archives are a letter by Thomas Jefferson and documents dating as far back as the early 1700s.Greenbrier Historical Society is dedicated to community...
Vincennes, Indiana
Grouseland is the elegant Georgian home built in 1803 by William Henry Harrison when he was Governor of the Indiana Territory. Harrison was elected ninth President of the United States in 1840, so the home is a Presidential site, and exhibits contain colorful campaign memorabilia. A unique...
Marion, Ohio
This circular monument of white Georgia marble contains the remains of President and Mrs. Harding.The monument, set in ten acres of landscaped grounds, is similar in appearance to a round Greek temple. The simple Doric features and spacious surroundings combine to create one of the most beautiful...
Key West, Florida
President Truman spent his winters at what is today the Harry S. Truman Little White House Museum.The museum's exhibits range from the microcosmic (the 1948 election) to the macrocosmic (the state of the world at the time of Truman's election), and it broadens its scope to include the 13 other...
Independence, Missouri
Visitors experience the surroundings Harry Truman knew from his formative years as a 22-year-old youth of modest ambition through his retirement and death at age 88 as a former president of the U.S.Harry S Truman National Historic Site opened to the public on May 15, 1984. In her will, Mrs. Truman...
West Branch, Iowa
The future president was born in a small, two-room cottage in 1874 and today the Birthplace Cottage is the centerpiece of Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.Start at the Visitor Center to get your map and plan your day. See a 12-minute film and exhibits on Herbert Hoover's childhood. Take a self...
Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey
This historic stone house was visited by Washington during the Revolutionary War, and was the the site of the marriage between Aaron Burr and Theodosia Prevost.The Hermitage, a National Historic Landmark, is located on five acres of lawn shaded by centuries-old trees. The site is listed on the...
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Built on 1,300 acres, this home to George Washington's sister, Betty, served as a Revolutionary-era arms dealer by supplying Washington's troops during the fight for independence.One of Virginia's most elegant colonial mansions, Kenmore was built in the 1770s by Fielding Lewis for his wife Betty,...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This historical society, one of the oldest in the nation, contains the first draft of the U.S. Constitution and the earliest surviving photograph.The Society's building, designed by Addison Hutton and listed on the City of Philadelphia's Register of Historical Places, houses some 600,000 printed...
Richmond, Virginia
Named for its multitude of holly trees, this cemetery, opened in 1849, contains the graves of Presidents James Monroe, John Tyler, and Jefferson Davis, along with the first casualty of the Civil War.Besides being the resting place to the only Confederate States President, it is also the resting...
Hyde Park, New York
The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site contains "Springwood", the lifelong home of America's only 4-term President. Also on the site is the Presidential Library and Museum, operated by the National Archives."All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on...
Columbia, Tennessee
U.S. President James K. Polk's home is open to the public and displays objects from his life and presidency.U.S. President James K. Polk's home is open to the public and displays objects from his life and presidency.Visitors can learn about the 11th President, the youngest up to the time, who...
Pineville, North Carolina
This site is located on land once owned by the parents of James K. Polk, the 11th U.S. president. The visitor center features a film on Polk's life and exhibits on his family and presidency.The state historic site commemorates significant events in the Polk administration: the Mexican-American War...
Orange, Virginia
Located in Madison's home Orange County, the museum devotes itself to the life and times of fourth president, James Madison, known today as the Father of the Constitution.The James Madison Museum houses exhibits on James and Dolley Madison, featuring one of the nation's most outstanding collections...
Plains, Georgia
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter learned the importance of hard work, honesty, virtue, love and mercy in the quaint, rural town of Plains, Georgia.Whether you are a Carter enthusiast, a researcher, or just curious how a small town influenced a young boy who would become the president of the most powerful...
Dover, Delaware
This was the home of John Dickinson, one of the founding fathers of the United States, signer of the Constitution, and "Penman of the Revolution."It was January 18, 1740 when Samuel Dickinson, a wealthy Quaker tobacco planter and merchant of Talbot County, Maryland moved his family to the...
Dallas, Texas
Renowned American architect Philip Johnson designed this simple memorial in honor of slain President John F. Kennedy.The assassination of President Kennedy changed the city—and the world—forever. As a tribute to this extraordinary man, John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza was dedicated on...
Katonah, New York
Nestled in the rolling Westchester countryside is the gracious home and farm of John Jay, one of America's principal Founding Fathers.John Jay co-authored the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War, and the Federalist Papers, which supported ratification of the U.S. Constitution. He...
Richmond, Virginia
The noted Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall built this Federal-style house in 1790 and lived here for forty-five years.This temple-front, four-room plan house with an Adamesque interior has undergone remarkably few changes since Marshall's ownership. It reflects much of its original...
Jamaica, New York
Rufus King, member of the Continental Congress and signer of the Constitution, spent his later years in this 18th century farmhouse. Exhibits chronicle his work in the early antislavery movement.Today the centerpiece of an 11-acre New York City park in Jamaica, Queens, King Manor Museum was the...
San Marcos, Texas
The LBJ Museum of San Marcos focuses on the former president Lyndon B. Johnson's formative years as a college student and schoolteacher.The Museum currently houses approximately 130 items, including early photographs, local news clippings, a book collection, copies of the Pedagog from the 1920s,...