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Sharpsburg, Maryland
At this field on Sept. 17, 1862, the Battle of Antietam, dubbed "the bloodiest day in American history," claimed the lives of 23,000 Civil War soldiers.It was at this battlefield that the Civil War saw its bloodiest single day battle. The Visitor Center here includes exhibits, an observation room,...
Collegeville, Pennsylvania
This 18th century National Historic Landmark is still practicing today and adjoins a cemetary with tombstones dating back to 1729.The first church building of Augustus Lutheran Church is still standing and is the oldest unchanged Lutheran Church building in continuous use in the United States. The...
Annapolis, Maryland
This museum of African American culture and history in Maryland sits in the former Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church in Annapolis' historic district.The Banneker-Douglass Museum is named for Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass, and serves as the state's official repository of...
Frederica, Delaware
The 1780 chapel is nicknamed "The Cradle of Methodism" and is the oldest surviving Methodist church in the United States.Under the direction of John Wesley after the American Revolutionary War, Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury met during a service at this chapel in 1784. From that point...
Bishop Hill, Illinois
Bishop Hill was the site of a utopian religious community founded in 1846 by Swedish pietist Eric Janson (1808-1850) and his followers.Many consider the Jansonist emigration as the beginning of Swedish America. A number of historically significant buildings have survived and are scattered...
Petersburg, Virginia
In June 1866, the first Memorial Day was celebrated here in honor of the 30,000 Confederate soldiers buried on Memorial Hill inside the burial ground.This 18th-century church became a memorial to the Southern soldiers who died during the Civil War. In honor of the Confederate dead, each state...
Brentwood, Tennessee
The Boiling Spring Academy is a restored 1830 one room school house located in Primm Historic Park on Moores Lane.The Boiling Spring Academy is a restored 1830 one room school house located in Primm Historic Park on Moores Lane.
On this site, prehistoric Native Americans lived and left their mounds...
St. Augustine, Florida
This cathedral is most well-known for establishing the first parish in the United States when Spanish settlers inhabited the area in 1565.First completed in 1565 of pine posts and cypress fronds by the founders of the city and continually restructured until 1788, this Spanish Colonial and...
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....
Napoleonville, Louisiana
Built in 1853, this church served as a worship space and community center for English-speaking Protestants in a predominately French-speaking Roman Catholic community.One of the oldest Episcopal churches west of the Mississippi River, Christ Episcopal Church is located on Bayou Lafourche in the...
San Germán, Puerto Rico
With trompe l'oeil painting that imitates wood coffers on the ceiling, the Church of San Germán's interior is one of the most lavishly decorated on the island.The Church of San Germán Auxerre overlooks the town of San Germán's main plaza. Spanish settlers founded San Germ...
San Germàn, Puerto Rico
Restored in 1960, this 17th century convent now houses a Religious Art Museum.Dominican friars built the Convento de Porta Coeli in 1609 at the crest of a hill in what is now San Germán. During the 18th century the Convento was reconstructed and a church built next to it. The single nave...
Helena, Montana
Originally a Jewish temple, this Church was one of the first of the Catholic faith to be founded in this region, and converted thousands of Native Americans.The Vicariate Apostolate of Nebraska was erected for Montana east of the Cascade Mountains and Wyoming, 1857-1884, and the Vicariate...
Nashville, Tennessee
Founded in 1860 by four sisters in Nashville, the St. Cecilia Congregation managed to establish a vocations academy and follow their calling to God and the community.In her history of St. Cecilia Congregation, The Nashville Dominicans, Sister Rose Marie Masserano writes: “How is it that a...
Dublin, California
The Dublin Heritage Center takes visitors on a journey to the beginnings of the city of Dublin.By viewing the Old St. Raymond's Church, the Murray School House, and the Dublin Pioneer Cemetery, visitors can get a sense of what it was like to live in Dublin in the 19th century.
Echo, Utah
This historic church was built in 1876.This 1876 church is now a museum with a photographs collection and docent-led tours.
Lexington, Kentucky
Religiously and historically significant, the church is the third oldest black Baptist church congregation in the United States and the oldest in Kentucky.The First African Baptist Church was founded c.1790 to serve the religious needs of African Americans in the Lexington area. TThe first pastor...
Fishkill, New York
Since its establishment by the Dutch immigrants in 1731, this church has served an important purpose for New York history.The church itself is one of the most historic buildings in all of Dutchess County. This unlikely location was used as a military prison during the American Revolution. The 4th...
Lincoln, Rhode Island
A Quaker meeting house dating from the first decade of the eighteenth century is still in use today.The Quakers can boast of a long and rich historical legacy in America. The Lincoln, Rhode Island Quakers have used this meeting house since its construction in 1704 to the present day.
Jacksonville, Florida
The Jacksonville Historical Society makes its home in the Old St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, and chronicles the vast history of Jacksonville.This towering Gothic Revival church is the largest pre-1901 house of worship in Jacksonville. When it was constructed in 1887, its architect, Robert S....
Jemez Springs, New Mexico
The area includes the stone ruins of a 500 year old Indian village and the San José de los Jemez church dating to 1610. A 1,400-foot interpretive trail winds through the site ruins.The village of Giusewa was built in the narrow San Diego Canyon by the ancestors of the present-day people of Jemez (...
Lexington, Virginia
This chapel was built at the request of former Confederate General Robert E. Lee in 1867 when he served as president of Washington College. He and his family are buried here.Since the days of Robert E. Lee, Lee Chapel has been at the heart of life on the campus of Washington and Lee...
Springfield, Illinois
The Lincoln family began attending the church in 1850 after the death of three-year-old Edward Lincoln. Their pew is on display.The Lincoln family began attending the church in 1850 after the death of three-year-old Edward Lincoln. Dr. James Smith, the pastor at the time, had conducted Eddie's...
Monroeville, Alabama
The Old Courthouse Museum houses the headquarters of the Monroe County Heritage Museum, a conglomerate of many local historic sites.
The beautiful old Courthouse on the town square, which now houses the Monroe County Heritage Museums, served as a model for the famed courtroom scene from "To...
Tarrytown, New York
This is the 17th Century church and 3 acre churchyard from "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" where, it is said, the Headless Horseman tethers his horse nightly among the graves.Surrounded by (and often confused with) Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, the church and its burying ground are in fact a...
Southampton, Pennsylvania
This meetinghouse preserves three hundred years of church history in Southampton, which began with the Society of Friends in the 17th century.This meetinghouse preserves three hundred years of church history in Southampton, which began with the Society of Friends in the 17th century.
The...
Union, West Virginia
Forged in the fire of frontier instability, this church stands as a landmark to religion as a component of the pioneer impulse.Newly-arrived pioneers organized a Methodist church in the vicinity of Union in late 1784. Working together, they built the church in 1785 on the land of Edward Keenan, who...
New Orleans, Louisiana
Since the 18th century this cathedral has remained the steepled centerpiece of Old New Orleans.Since 1727 New Orleanians have worshipped in churches on this site. Half a dozen years earlier, the French engineer, Adrien De Pauger, who arrived in the newly founded city on March 29, 1721, designated...
Mount Vernon, New York
This 18th-century church, located at 897 South Columbus Avenue in Mount Vernon, is one of New York's oldest parishes (1665-1980).St. Paul's Church helps to tell the story of the development of colonial society and the road to the American Revolution. It consists of an 18th century stone church that...
San Antonio, Texas
The original Church of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria y Guadalupe was built between 1728 and 1749 as the parish church of Villa San Fernando de Bexar, the first civil settlement in Texas.By the mid-1860s the population of San Antonio had outgrown the original structure. The present building...
Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico
Immortalized by Georgia O'Keeffe in her famous painting of its adobe walls, the structure is a popular destination for artists and tourists alike in the middle of bustling Ranchos de Taos.San Francisco de Asís Mission Church, c. 1772, is one of the best known and most photographed churches...
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Since its creation, San Miguel has been used as a chapel and shrine to St. Michael, a military chapel, an oratory for the Christian Brothers, a school chapel and a barrio church.The city of Santa Fe was founded in 1610, and El San Miguel (St. Michael's) Mission Church was built between 1610 and and...
El Paso, Texas
The present Socorro Mission was constructed around 1840 to replace an earlier 18th-century mission destroyed in 1829 by flooding of the Rio Grande.The original Franciscan mission, Nuestra Señora de la Concepción del Socorro, was founded in 1682 by the Franciscan order, to serve...
Paincourtville, Louisiana
St. Elizabeth is one of the largest historic buildings in Assumption Parish, and contains the most elaborate interior decorative paintwork of any church in the area.St. Elizabeth Catholic Church is a large brick basilican plan Gothic style church near the center of the small bayou town of...
Victoria, Kansas
Fidelis Church is a finalist for the 8 Wonders of Kansas due to its architectural distinction and the impressive craftsmanship achieved by the Volga German pioneers. With a seating capacity of 1,100, St. Fidelis was the largest church west of the Mississippi when it was completed in 1911. Its...
Lapwai, Idaho
This little white church, built in 1874 and restored in 1960, was the first mission for the Nez Perce Indians.This first mission for the Nez Perce Indians was built in 1874 near Mission Creek on land donated by Chief Slickpoo. It was restored in 1960 and is open to the public as part of the Nez...
St. Augustine, Florida
This Greek Orthodox Shrine is dedicated to the American Greek colony founded in 1768, the first in the New World.The story of the first Greek migration to America, occurring in 1768, is retold in St. Photios Greek Orthodox National Shrine's historic museum. Artifacts, photographs, and other...
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
This area experienced a number of battles during the Civil War; this site remembers the turmoil of the late 19th century Tennessee.The Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area tells the whole story of the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction. Its focus includes national battlefields as...
Newport, Rhode Island
Touro Synagogue, dedicated in 1762, is the oldest synagogue in the United States and the only one that survives from the colonial era.The Touro Synagogue was dedicated in 1762, and serves an active congregation today. The congregation was founded in 1658 by Sephardim who fled the Inquisition in...
Tumacacori, Arizona
This national park is the home to three Spanish colonial missions, which date back to the 18th century and have greatly impacted religion in the American southwest.Tumacácori NHP protects three Spanish colonial mission ruins in southern Arizona: Tumacácori, Guevavi, and Calabazas. The...
Tarrytown, New York
This unassuming country church contains nine stained glass windows by Marc Chagall and a window by Henri Matisse; this was his last work of art before his death in 1954.Visitors marvel at the colorful rose window created for the church by Henri Matisse. The design for the window was his last work...
Gilford, New Hampshire
In 1834 the Universalists and the Christian Baptists joined forces to build the Union Meetinghouse, with the former preaching in the morning, and the latter in the afternoon.Following the Civil War, the building came into possession of the Methodist-Episcopal Society, which in turn painted the...
El Paso, Texas
Ysleta Mission (Mission de Corpus Christi de la Ysleta) was constructed in 1744 in part to serve the Tigua Indian community which had fled New Mexico during the Pueblo Revolt.The church was partially destroyed during a disastrous fire in 1907, but was reconstructed with the addition of a three-...