Slater Mill
Built in 1793, Slater Mill was America's first water-powered textile mill, bringing the Industrial Revolution to the United States. Samuel Slater was...
Minute Man National Historic Park
B efore the sun rose on April 19, 1775, years of simmering tension came to a head in the fields of Lexington and Concord, where the “shot heard ’round...
Morris-Jumel Mansion
This historic mansion in the middle of Manhattan was built in 1765 by loyalists Roger Morris and his wife Mary. After the British captured New York...
Sycamore Hill Gateway Plaza/Sycamore Hill Missionary Baptist Church
On the eve of the Civil War, a small group of African Americans gathered for worship and fellowship. Their church grew on this site as the Sycamore...
Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
During the Revolutionary War in 1781, Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson fled to Poplar Forest from Monticello to evade capture from British forces...
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Free blacks and slaves living west of Second St. and north of Broad St. founded the Third African Baptist Church in 1857. In 1858, it was dedicated on...