Did you know the Morrill Act of 1862 lead to the founding of Ohio State University in 1870?
Did you know the first Purdue class consisted of just 39 students and six faculty members?
Wisconsin's school motto is: "I shall never be content until the beneficent influence of the University reaches every home in the state."
This park comprises 178 nautical square miles of seagrass beds, coral reefs and mangrove swamps and is the first undersea park in the United States.
These tar pits hold the fossils of Ice Age animals that became trapped in the asphalt deposits here. The fossils were first described by Wellesley College professor William Denton in 1875.
This was Miami’s first marine-life attraction when it opened in 1955, as well as the world’s largest one at the time.
McCarter Theatre opened its doors in 1930 with a special performance of The Golden Dog by the Princeton University Triangle Club.
Completed in 1824, this Greek Revival structure was home to the Second Bank of the United States until 1836.
Established in 1719, this cemetery is the final resting place for Benjamin Franklin & 4 other signers of the Declaration of Independence: Joseph Hewes, Francis Hopkinson, George Ross & Benjamin Rush.
Betsy Ross, credited with sewing the first American flag, is believed to have worked and resided in this house, built around 1740, from 1773 to 1885.
The U.S. Supreme Court met here from 1791, when the building was finished, to 1800, when America’s capital moved from Philadelphia to Washington.
This is home to a number of sites and attractions associated with early American history, including Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.
Elvis Aaron Presley was born on Jan. 9, 1935, in this two-room house built by his father and grandfather. The Presleys lived here only two years before tight finances forced them to move.
This historic structure, erected in the early 1700s, housed an influential publishing business and bookstore in the 1800s.
Opened in 1941, this museum, founded by financier Andrew Mellon, has some 116,000 works of Western art dating from the Middle Ages to the modern era.
This statue of the iconic jazz composer, pianist and band leader, who died in 1974, was sculpted by Robert Graham and dedicated in 1997.
Opened in 1993, this museum is devoted to the history of the Holocaust, the state-sponsored murder of 6 million Jews in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945.
The current building was designed by Robert Mills and constructed over a 33-year period beginning in 1836. It is the oldest departmental building in Washington.
Created in 1959 by Jose de Creeft (1884-1982), this bronze sculpture features characters from the 1865 Lewis Carroll story‚ "Alice in Wonderland."
Built in 1729, this was where some 5,000 colonists gathered on December 16, 1773, for a protest that culminated that night in the Boston Tea Party.
Built in Boston and launched in 1797, this is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat. In the early 1800s, the 44-gun Constitution fought Barbary pirates off the coast of North Africa.
Cape May's World War II Lookout Tower, also known as Fire Control Tower No. 23, was built in 1942. It was one of 15 towers that served as part of a harbor defense system known as Fort Miles.
This monument, titled the "Spirit of Freedom," honors the more than 200,000 African-American soldiers who fought during the Civil War.
This site contains the known remains of more than 400 enslaved and free Africans buried here between 1690 and 1794.
This memorial structure contains the bodies of President Abraham Lincoln, his wife Mary Todd and three of their sons.
Lincoln was born at the home on Feb 12, 1809. A granite-and-marble Beaux Art memorial stands at the spot, containing a "symbolic" birth cabin. The memorial was dedicated in 1911 by President Taft.
This children‚'s museum celebrates businessmen, Olympic medalist and Salem native Alfred Collins Gilbert, who is best known as the creator of the Erector Set.
The first Virginia State Fair & Stock Exhibition was held on Wheeling Island in October 1866. It has since moved twice more before making The Meadow Event Park its new home in September 2009.
It is said that every US President since William Howard Taft has stayed at this hotel. This hotel is the first place Tony Bennett ever sang “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.”
Built in 1779, it is one of the oldest western stagecoach stops in the USA. Today it offers five guest rooms, all named after the notable figures who have stayed at the tavern.
