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
- Not yet: 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
Maine
- Visited: Acadia National Park
- Not yet: 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
- Not yet: Fire Island National Seashore
- Visited: Fort Stanwix National Monument
- Not yet: Gateway National Recreation Area
- Visited: General Grant National Memorial
- Not yet: 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
- Not yet: 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
- Visited: Home of Franklin Roosevelt
Rhode Island
- Visited: Roger Williams National Memorial
- Visited: The Touro Synagogue in Newport
Vermont
- Visited: Marsh-Billing-Rockefeller National Historical Park
Recent Posts
Boston African American National Historic Site
Tucked into the narrow streets of Beacon Hill, the African Meeting House stands quietly, but its presence carries the full weight of a community determined to define itself. Built in 1806, it is the oldest surviving Black church building in the United States, constructed largely by free African American artisans who refused to be limited by the constraints of […]
Saratoga National Historical Park
In New York lies the Saratoga National Historical Park, a place where one of the most important turning points in American history unfolded. It was here in 1777, that American forces met the British army during the American Revolutionary war and achieved a victory that would change the course of the war. More than a battlefield […]
Cape Cod National Seashore
Along the outer edge of Cape Cod lies the Cape Cod National Seashore, a place where the land is never quite the same from one visit to the next. This is a landscape shaped not by permanence, but my movement. The dunes shift with the wind. The cliffs along the shoreline are steadily worn away by […]
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park
Traveling to New Bedford is, in many ways, traveling back in time. There was a period when this town stood at the center of a global industry, when its harbor was filled with ships that would travel the world in search of whales, and its streets reflected the wealth that trade created. The large homes […]
Lowell National Historical Park
One of the places in Massachusetts that I have returned to many times over the years is Lowell National Historical Park. Each visit reveals something new about the remarkable story of how an entire American city was intentionally created around industry. Walking along the canals and through the brick mills, it is easy to imagine […]
Women’s Rights National Historical Park
Driving across upstate New York is full of history, landmarks, and monuments. A brown National Park sign in Seneca Falls led me to the Women’s Rights Museum, and like any new place, that first visit left me with a lot to take in. I did not know then about the convention that had taken place here. […]
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 […]
