National Historical Park

Der Glockenturm auf der Independence Hall, in dem früher die Liberty Bell hing (Independence National Historical Park)

Als National Historical Park werden in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika Einrichtungen oder Orte ausgewiesen, die als Denkmäler historisch bedeutend sind. Fast alle National Historic Parks stehen im Eigentum der US-Bundesregierung und sie werden vom National Park Service unter dem Dach des Innenministeriums verwaltet.

Beispiele für National Historical Parks sind:

Einzelne historisch bedeutenden Gebäude oder kleinräumigere Denkmäler des Bundes werden als National Historic Site ausgewiesen.

Liste der National Historical Parks

Es gibt 61 National Historical Parks (Stand 2021):

NameBundesstaat
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical ParkKentucky
Adams National Historical ParkMassachusetts
Appomattox Court House National Historical ParkVirginia
Blackstone River Valley National Historical ParkRhode Island, Massachusetts
Boston National Historical ParkMassachusetts
Brown v. Board of Education National Historical ParkKansas
Cane River Creole National Historical ParkLouisiana
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical ParkVirginia
Chaco Culture National Historical ParkNew Mexico
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical ParkMaryland, Washington, D.C., West Virginia
Colonial National Historical Park
  • Cape Henry Memorial
  • Colonial Parkway
  • Jamestown National Historic Site (zugeordnetes Gebiet)
  • Yorktown Battlefield
  • Yorktown National Cemetery
Virginia
Cumberland Gap National Historical ParkKentucky, Tennessee, Virginia
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical ParkOhio
First State National Historical ParkDelaware, Pennsylvania
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical ParkSouth Carolina
George Rogers Clark National Historical ParkIndiana
Golden Spike National Historical ParkUtah
Harpers Ferry National Historical ParkWest Virginia
Harriet Tubman National Historical ParkNew York
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical ParkMaryland
Homestead National Historical ParkNebraska
Hopewell Culture National Historical ParkOhio
Independence National Historical ParkPennsylvania
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
  • Chalmette National Cemetery
Louisiana
Jimmy Carter National Historical ParkGeorgia
Kalaupapa National Historical ParkHawaii
Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical ParkHawaii
Keweenaw National Historical ParkMichigan
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical ParkAlaska, Washington
Lewis and Clark National Historical ParkOregon, Washington
Lowell National Historical ParkMassachusetts
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical ParkTexas
Manhattan Project National Historical ParkNew Mexico, Tennessee, Washington
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical ParkVermont
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical ParkGeorgia
Minute Man National Historical ParkMassachusetts
Morristown National Historical ParkNew Jersey
Natchez National Historical ParkMississippi
New Bedford Whaling National Historical ParkMassachusetts
New Orleans Jazz National Historical ParkLouisiana
Nez Perce National Historical ParkIdaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical ParkGeorgia
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical ParkTexas
Paterson Great Falls National Historical ParkNew Jersey
Pecos National Historical ParkNew Mexico
Pullman National Historical ParkIllinois
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical ParkHawaii
Reconstruction Era National Historical ParkSouth Carolina
Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical ParkKalifornien
Saint-Gaudens National Historical ParkNew Hampshire
Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological PreserveAmerikanische Jungferninseln
San Antonio Missions National Historical ParkTexas
San Francisco Maritime National Historical ParkKalifornien
San Juan Island National Historical ParkWashington
Saratoga National Historical ParkNew York
Sitka National Historical ParkAlaska
Ste. Geneviève National Historical ParkMissouri
Thomas Edison National Historical ParkNew Jersey
Tumacácori National Historical ParkArizona
Valley Forge National Historical ParkPennsylvania
War in the Pacific National Historical ParkGuam
Weir Farm National Historical ParkConnecticut
Women’s Rights National Historical ParkNew York

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Independence Hall belltower.jpg
Autor/Urheber: Dan Smith, Lizenz: CC BY-SA 2.5
The belltower atop Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on a cloudy day.