7/27/26

Where I've Been: National Historic Sites

After discovering I've been to only 15 of the 64 National Historical Parks, I was curious how many of the National Historic Sites I've visited. As I noted in the previous post, a National Historic Sites (NHS) tends to be smaller than a National Historical Park (NHP). Often, they focus on a single building of importance in US history. 


There are 75 NHS units in the National Park System. As before, I've added a star if I've been there. If I've visited since I started blogging about travel, I've added a link. 



Where I've Been: National Historic Sites



Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Amache National Historic Site, Colorado
Andersonville National Historic Site, Georgia
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, Tennessee
Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site, Colorado
Blackwell School National Historic Site, Texas
Boston African American National Historic Site, Massachusetts
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, North Carolina
Carter G. Woodson Home National Historic Site, District of Columbia
Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, South Carolina
Christiansted National Historic Site, Virgin Islands
Clara Barton National Historic Site, Maryland
Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Eisenhower National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site, California
First Ladies National Historic Site, Ohio
*Ford's Theatre National Historic Site, District of Columbia
Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Arizona
Fort Davis National Historic Site, Texas
Fort Laramie National Historic Site, Wyoming
Fort Larned National Historic Site, Kansas
Fort Raleigh National Historic Site, North Carolina
Fort Scott National Historic Site, Kansas
Fort Smith National Historic Site, Arkansas and Oklahoma
Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site, Montana and North Dakota
Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, Washington
Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, District of Columbia
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Massachusetts
Friendship Hill National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site, Montana
Hampton National Historic Site, Maryland
Harry S Truman National Historic Site, Missouri
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, Iowa
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Honouliuli National Historic Site, Hawaii
Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Arizona
James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Ohio
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site, Massachusetts
*John Muir National Historic Site, California
Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site, North Dakota
Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Illinois
Longfellow - Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, Massachusetts
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site, Virginia
Manzanar National Historic Site, California
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, New York
Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site, District of Columbia
Minidoka National Historic Site, Idaho
New Philadelphia National Historic Site, Illinois
Nicodemus National Historic Site, Kansas
Ninety Six National Historic Site, South Carolina
*Pennsylvania Avenue National Historic Site, District of Columbia
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site, Arkansas
Pu'ukoholā Heiau National Historic Site, Hawaii
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, New York
Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site, New York
*San Juan National Historic Site, Puerto Rico
Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site, Colorado
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site, Massachusetts
Springfield Armory National Historic Site, Massachusetts
Steamtown National Historic Site, Pennsylvania
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York
Thomas Stone National Historic Site, Maryland
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site, Alabama
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, Missouri
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, New York
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, Oklahoma
Whitman Mission National Historic Site, Washington
William Howard Taft National Historic Site, Ohio


I've been to 11 out of 75 National Historic Sites. Again, that's lower than I'd expected. But that just means I have a lot of destinations to look forward to visiting in the future!

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