North Atlantic Region
Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
Connecticut
- Visited: Weirs Farm
Massachusetts
- Visited: Adams National Historical Park
- Visited: Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park
- Visited: Boston National Historical Park
- Visited: Boston African American National Historic Site
- Visited: Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area
- Visited: Cape Cod National Seashore
- Visited: Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
- Visited: John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
- Visited: Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site
- Visited: Lowell National Historical Park
- Visited: Minute Man National Historical Park
- Visited: New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
- Visited: Salem Maritime National Historical Park
- Visited: Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
- Visited: Springfield Armory National Historic Site
- Visited: Freedom Trail
- Visited: The Oliver Estate
Maine
- Visited: Acadia National Park
- Visited: Frances Perkins National Monument
- Visited: Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
- Not yet: Maine Acadian Culture
- Visited: Roosevelt Campobello International Park
- Visited: Saint Croix Island International Historic Site
New Hampshire
- Visited: Saint Gaudens National Park
New York
- Visited: African Burial Ground National Monument
- Visited: Castle Clinton National Monument
- Visited: Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
- Visited: Federal Hall National Memorial
- Visited: Fire Island National Seashore
- Visited: Fort Stanwix National Monument
- Visited: Gateway National Recreation Area
- Visited: General Grant National Memorial
- Visited: Governors Island National Monument
- Visited: Hamilton Grange National Memorial
- Visited: Harriet Tubman National Historical Park
- Visited: Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Visited: Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
- Visited: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
- Visited: St Paul Church National Historic Site
- Visited: Saratoga National Historical Park
- Visited: Statue of Liberty National Monument
- Not yet: Stonewall National Monument
- Visited: Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
- Visited: Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
- Visited: Thomas Cole National Historic Site
- Visited: Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
- Visited: Women's Rights National Historical Park
Rhode Island
- Visited: Roger Williams National Memorial
- Visited: The Touro Synagogue in Newport
Vermont
- Visited: Marsh-Billing-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Recent Posts
General Grant Memorial Park
The General Grant National Memorial, often called Grant’s Tomb, is the final resting place of Ulysses S. Grant. Located along Riverside Drive in New York City, it stands as the largest mausoleum in North America and one of the most prominent memorials to a Civil War figure. Grant died on July 23, 1885. At the time of […]
Saint Croix Island International Historic Site
Erin and I drove to Saint Croix Island International Historic Site, a place that marks one of the earliest European settlements in North America. Located along the St. Croix River, this site sits on the border between the United States and Canada, just east of Calais. From the mainland, you look out across the water to […]
Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
The first time I visited the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, everything was new to me: his name, his work, even the realization that so many landscapes I had walked through carried the imprint of one mind. I did not grow up knowing who Frederick Law Olmsted was. I knew about parks. […]
Hamilton Grange National Memorial
For those who have seen the musical Hamilton, do you remember the moment when the family “moves uptown? In the late 18th century, uptown meant leaving the crowded streets of lower Manhattan for open farmland to the north. This are would later become Harlem. That is where Alexander Hamilton built his country retreat, a house known […]
Roger Williams National Memorial
Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence, Rhode Island preserves the legacy of a man whose ideas helped shape one of the most enduring principles of American life: religious freedom. Roger Williams arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1631 and quickly became known for his uncompromising beliefs. He argued that civil government should not enforce […]
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
An often-forgotten president, Martin van Buren, is remembered at his home, Lindenwald, in Kinderhook, New York. This site is now preserved as the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site. I have visited this house a couple of times, and the house itself leaves an impression, especially with its distinctive French scenic wallpaper that wraps entire rooms in […]
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Theodore Roosevelt was born on October 27, 1858, in a brownstone home on East 20th Street in Manhattan. Though the original house was demolished in 1916, it was reconstructed in the 1920s on the original site, using photographs, family memories and original furnishings to recreate the homes it would have appeared during his childhood. The house reflects the […]
Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
Long before Massachusetts became synonymous with textile mills, industry was already taking root along the Saugus River. In 1646, a group of English investors organized as the Company of Undertakers of the Iron Works in New England established what would become the first successful integrated ironworks in colonial North America. Their goal was to reduce the […]
Salem Maritime National Historic Site
In Massachusetts, many visitors come to Salem searching for the echoes of the 1692 witch trials. But along the waterfront stands another Salem story, older in infrastructure, broader in reach and foundational to the young nation’s economy. The Salem Maritime National Historic Site preserves nearly nice acres along the harbor that reflect Salem’s extraordinary maritime […]
Castle Clinton National Monument
Castle Clinton sits at the southern tip of Manhattan in Battery Park, layered with nearly two centuries of American history in a circular stone structure. Originally constructed between 1808 and 18111, it was built as a coastal fort to defend New York Harbor during tensions leading up to the War of 1812. At that time, it sood […]
Minute Man National Park
On numerous acres stretches Minute Man National Historical Park. As a Massachusetts resident, we have visited this park several times. The park encompasses approximately 1,000 acres across the towns of Lexington, Lincoln, and Concord, preserving the landscape of April 19, 1775. This date was the opening day of the American Revolution. It was established as a National […]
African Burial Ground National Monument
In the very center of New York City, surrounded by federal buildings and urban motion, sites the powerful historic space: African Burial Ground National Monument. This sacred ground came into view in the early 1990s during excavation for a new federal office building. What construction crews uncovered stopped the project in its tracks: hundreds of burial remains dating from the 17th […]
