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T. Thomas Fortune House, 94 West Bergen Place, Red Bank, Monmouth County, NJ

T. Thomas Fortune House, 94 West Bergen Place, Red Bank, Monmouth Coun...

West Bergen Place has been renamed Drs. James Parker Boulevard. Significance: Born a slave, crusading journalist T. Thomas Fortune eventually owned and operated three newspapers which he used to fight against c... More

639 Division Avenue (House), Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA

639 Division Avenue (House), Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA

Significance: A high concentration of window, tableware, bottle and specialty glass plants distinguished Jeannette as "The Glass City" early in its history. Significant housing stock consists of company-built r... More

Boone Furnace, Boone Furnace, Carter County, KY

Boone Furnace, Boone Furnace, Carter County, KY

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1351 Survey number: HAER KY-40 Building/structure dates: 1987

YAWL BONITA, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

YAWL BONITA, Hyde Street Pier, San Francisco, San Francisco County, CA

STORED ON SITE. mchr Survey number: HAER CA-251 Public domain photograph - historical image of California, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Union Cemetery, Schellsburg, Bedford County, PA

Union Cemetery, Schellsburg, Bedford County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-605 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter BASSWOOD, Marianas Section, Victor Wharf, Agana Heights, Guam, GU

U.S. Coast Guard Cutter BASSWOOD, Marianas Section, Victor Wharf, Agan...

Significance: This vessel was built to serve as a 180' U.S. Coast Guard cutter. The federal government purchased or built thirty-nine of these vessels, built in three sub-classes, from 1942-1944. The U.S. Coa... More

Double Ended Columbia River Gillnet Boat, Columbia River Maritime Museum Storage, Astoria, Clatsop County, OR

Double Ended Columbia River Gillnet Boat, Columbia River Maritime Muse...

Significance: Part of an ongoing project to document the evolution of the Columbia River gillnet boat, this Double Ended Bowpicker is an example of a double ender with cabin aft (bowpicker). Motorized double en... More

Stone Bridge, CSAH 17 spanning Grand Portage Creek, Grand Portage, Cook County, MN

Stone Bridge, CSAH 17 spanning Grand Portage Creek, Grand Portage, Coo...

Significance: The Stone Bridge is significant for its association with the Civilian Conservation Corps-Indian Division (CCC-ID). Minnesota Chippewa enrolled in CCC-ID camps throughout the state, including the o... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Holliwell Bridge, Spanning Middle River at Holliwell Bridge Road (now bypassed)  (changed from Spanning Middle River at county road), Winterset, Madison County, IA

Holliwell Bridge, Spanning Middle River at Holliwell Bridge Road (now ...

See Historical Overview of Iowa Bridges, HAER No. IA-88, which provides a unified historical context of bridges included in Iowa Historic Bridges Recording Project I and II. Significance: Madison County has the... More

Kennecott Copper Corporation, Leaching Plant, On Copper River & Northwestern Railroad, Kennicott, Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Kennecott Copper Corporation, Leaching Plant, On Copper River & Northw...

Significance: The original leaching plant (now the south end of the building) was constructed in 1915 and went into production the next year. The first four leaching tanks could process 300 tons of ore per day... More

Holliwell Bridge, Spanning Middle River at Holliwell Bridge Road (now bypassed)  (changed from Spanning Middle River at county road), Winterset, Madison County, IA

Holliwell Bridge, Spanning Middle River at Holliwell Bridge Road (now ...

See Historical Overview of Iowa Bridges, HAER No. IA-88, which provides a unified historical context of bridges included in Iowa Historic Bridges Recording Project I and II. Significance: Madison County has the... More

Holliwell Bridge, Spanning Middle River at Holliwell Bridge Road (now bypassed)  (changed from Spanning Middle River at county road), Winterset, Madison County, IA

Holliwell Bridge, Spanning Middle River at Holliwell Bridge Road (now ...

See Historical Overview of Iowa Bridges, HAER No. IA-88, which provides a unified historical context of bridges included in Iowa Historic Bridges Recording Project I and II. Significance: Madison County has the... More

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Baltimore-Washington Parkway, Greenbelt, Prince George's County, MD

Significance: The federal section of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway was constructed to provide a dignified entrance to the nation's capital. The parkway also provided a new traffic artery that relieved conge... More

Eberhart's Garage, Chambersburg Street, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Eberhart's Garage, Chambersburg Street, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-594 Public domain photograph of shopping center, department store building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam , 950 North 27th Road, Utica, La Salle County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam , 950 North 27th Road, Ut...

Survey number: HAER IL-164-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 04000166

Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam , 950 North 27th Road, Utica, La Salle County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam , 950 North 27th Road, Ut...

Survey number: HAER IL-164-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 04000166

Forsythe Bridge, Spanning Big Flat Rock Creek, CR 650S, Moscow, Rush County, IN

Forsythe Bridge, Spanning Big Flat Rock Creek, CR 650S, Moscow, Rush C...

Significance: Local bridge contractor Emmett L. Kennedy built the Forsythe Bridge in 1888. The Kennedy family of Rushville built nearly sixty covered bridges, which are distinguished primarily by the scrollwor... More

Bells Ford Bridge, Spanning East Fork White River at State Route 258, Seymour, Jackson County, IN

Bells Ford Bridge, Spanning East Fork White River at State Route 258, ...

Post truss, 2 spans Significance: Bells Ford Bridge is the only combination Post truss bridge, and one of only four Post truss bridges of all types surviving in the United States. It symbolizes the significant... More

Bells Ford Bridge, Spanning East Fork White River at State Route 258, Seymour, Jackson County, IN

Bells Ford Bridge, Spanning East Fork White River at State Route 258, ...

Post truss, 2 spans Significance: Bells Ford Bridge is the only combination Post truss bridge, and one of only four Post truss bridges of all types surviving in the United States. It symbolizes the significant... More

Bells Ford Bridge, Spanning East Fork White River at State Route 258, Seymour, Jackson County, IN

Bells Ford Bridge, Spanning East Fork White River at State Route 258, ...

Post truss, 2 spans Significance: Bells Ford Bridge is the only combination Post truss bridge, and one of only four Post truss bridges of all types surviving in the United States. It symbolizes the significant... More

Dutch Haven, 2857A Lincoln Highway East, Ronks, Lancaster County, PA

Dutch Haven, 2857A Lincoln Highway East, Ronks, Lancaster County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-611 Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portland, Somerset County, ME

New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portla...

Significance: The New Portland (Wire) Bridge is the only early American suspension bridge that remains basically unaltered, aside from John A. Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct. It is also the only extant example of... More

New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portland, Somerset County, ME

New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portla...

Significance: The New Portland (Wire) Bridge is the only early American suspension bridge that remains basically unaltered, aside from John A. Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct. It is also the only extant example of... More

New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portland, Somerset County, ME

New Portland Suspension Bridge, Spanning Carrabasset River, New Portla...

Significance: The New Portland (Wire) Bridge is the only early American suspension bridge that remains basically unaltered, aside from John A. Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct. It is also the only extant example of... More

Lincoln Motor Court, 5104 Lincoln Highway, Manns Choice, Bedford County, PA

Lincoln Motor Court, 5104 Lincoln Highway, Manns Choice, Bedford Count...

Survey number: HAER PA-602 Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, Clarendon, Warren County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, ...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, Clarendon, Warren County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, G. M. Mead Lot 492 Lease, Morrison Run Field, ...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

Peevy Road Bridge, Peevy Road spanning Perkiomen Creek in Upper Hanover Township, East Greenville, Montgomery County, PA

Peevy Road Bridge, Peevy Road spanning Perkiomen Creek in Upper Hanove...

Significance: The Peevy Road Bridge is an outstanding and exceptionally well-preserved example of a Pratt through truss by the Dayton, Ohio based Columbia Bridge Works. It exemplifies a number of innovations a... More

Arlington National Cemetery, USS Maine Memorial, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia

Arlington National Cemetery, USS Maine Memorial, Arlington, Arlington ...

Significance: "Remember the Maine" was the popular call of the "yellow" or sensational press, Congress, and private citizens throughout the United States as they rallied around the tragedy of 1898. The sinking ... More

Wind Cave Roads & Bridges, Hot Springs, Fall River County, SD

Wind Cave Roads & Bridges, Hot Springs, Fall River County, SD

Significance: The Wind Cave National Park road system reflects the combined efforts of the National Park Service, the South Dakota State Highway Commission, and the Bureau of Public Roads to provide vehicular a... More

Dean's House, 73 Nassau Street, Princeton, Mercer County, NJ

Dean's House, 73 Nassau Street, Princeton, Mercer County, NJ

Significance: The Dean's House was contemporary with Nassau Hall and was occupied by all the presidents of the University except Jonathan Dickinson until 1879; since then it has been the official residence of t... More

Dean's House, 73 Nassau Street, Princeton, Mercer County, NJ

Dean's House, 73 Nassau Street, Princeton, Mercer County, NJ

Significance: The Dean's House was contemporary with Nassau Hall and was occupied by all the presidents of the University except Jonathan Dickinson until 1879; since then it has been the official residence of t... More

Dean's House, 73 Nassau Street, Princeton, Mercer County, NJ

Dean's House, 73 Nassau Street, Princeton, Mercer County, NJ

Significance: The Dean's House was contemporary with Nassau Hall and was occupied by all the presidents of the University except Jonathan Dickinson until 1879; since then it has been the official residence of t... More

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Production Building, 2980 Madison Road, Norwood, Hamilton County, OH

R. K. LeBlond Machine Tool Company, Production Building, 2980 Madison ...

Significance: The Production Building is the largest single building in the Le Blond plant complex. Its distinguishing architectural characteristic is its sawtoothed skylit roof truss system which brought nort... More

Mills Street Bridge, Spanning Kalamazoo River, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, MI

Mills Street Bridge, Spanning Kalamazoo River, Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo Co...

Significance: The Mills Street Bridge is an early example of a large, earth-filled concrete arch bridge. It has been determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places by the Michigan ... More

Erie Railway, Buffalo Division, Bridge 361.66, Genesee River, State Route 436, Portageville, Wyoming County, NY

Erie Railway, Buffalo Division, Bridge 361.66, Genesee River, State Ro...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1385 Survey number: HAER NY-54

Western Land & Improvement Company Double Houses, South Fifth & Sixth Streets, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA

Western Land & Improvement Company Double Houses, South Fifth & Sixth ...

Significance: A high concentration of window, tableware, bottle and specialty glass plants distinguished Jeannette as "The Glass City" early in its history. Significant housing stock consists of company-built r... More

Illinois Waterway, Project Office, 257 Grant Street, Peoria, Peoria County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Project Office, 257 Grant Street, Peoria, Peoria Co...

Significance: The Project Office is significant for its association with the maintenance and operation of the Illinois Waterway, built to link Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond. Survey number... More

Illinois Waterway, Project Office, 257 Grant Street, Peoria, Peoria County, IL

Illinois Waterway, Project Office, 257 Grant Street, Peoria, Peoria Co...

Significance: The Project Office is significant for its association with the maintenance and operation of the Illinois Waterway, built to link Lake Michigan with the Mississippi River and beyond. Survey number... More

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol S...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse is significant for its role in the development and maintenance of Washington, DC's telephone network by the Chesapeake & Potomac (C&P) Telephon... More

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol S...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse is significant for its role in the development and maintenance of Washington, DC's telephone network by the Chesapeake & Potomac (C&P) Telephon... More

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol Street, NE, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse, 1111 North Capitol S...

Significance: The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company Warehouse is significant for its role in the development and maintenance of Washington, DC's telephone network by the Chesapeake & Potomac (C&P) Telephon... More

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximately 1.5 miles west of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximat...

Significance: When built, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15-ton capacity o... More

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximately 1.5 miles west of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximat...

Significance: When built, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15-ton capacity o... More

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximately 1.5 miles west of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximat...

Significance: When built, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15-ton capacity o... More

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximately 1.5 miles west of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximat...

Significance: When built, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15-ton capacity o... More

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximately 1.5 miles west of Public Square, Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, OH

Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock, Lake Erie at Whiskey Island, approximat...

Significance: When built, the Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock was the largest ore-unloading dock on the Great Lakes. The dock featured four Hulett unloaders with bucket capacities of 17 tons; a 15-ton capacity o... More

Keggereis Ford Bridge, Spanning West Branch Conococheague Creek at State Route 4006, Willow Hill, Franklin County, PA

Keggereis Ford Bridge, Spanning West Branch Conococheague Creek at Sta...

Significance: Keggereis Ford Bridge is a multiple-span reinforced concrete arch bridge built by a regionally significant bridge contractor. It is of engineering interest for its rib arch design and its relativ... More

Keggereis Ford Bridge, Spanning West Branch Conococheague Creek at State Route 4006, Willow Hill, Franklin County, PA

Keggereis Ford Bridge, Spanning West Branch Conococheague Creek at Sta...

Significance: Keggereis Ford Bridge is a multiple-span reinforced concrete arch bridge built by a regionally significant bridge contractor. It is of engineering interest for its rib arch design and its relativ... More

Keggereis Ford Bridge, Spanning West Branch Conococheague Creek at State Route 4006, Willow Hill, Franklin County, PA

Keggereis Ford Bridge, Spanning West Branch Conococheague Creek at Sta...

Significance: Keggereis Ford Bridge is a multiple-span reinforced concrete arch bridge built by a regionally significant bridge contractor. It is of engineering interest for its rib arch design and its relativ... More

River Road Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek in Spring Creek Township, Hallton, Elk County, PA

River Road Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek in Spring Creek Township, Hal...

Significance: The River Road Bridge is technologically and historically significant as a rare surviving example of a pin-connected Pratt through truss from the period of circa 1880 to 1910; in Pennsylvania Depa... More

River Road Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek in Spring Creek Township, Hallton, Elk County, PA

River Road Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek in Spring Creek Township, Hal...

Significance: The River Road Bridge is technologically and historically significant as a rare surviving example of a pin-connected Pratt through truss from the period of circa 1880 to 1910; in Pennsylvania Depa... More

River Road Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek in Spring Creek Township, Hallton, Elk County, PA

River Road Bridge, Spanning Spring Creek in Spring Creek Township, Hal...

Significance: The River Road Bridge is technologically and historically significant as a rare surviving example of a pin-connected Pratt through truss from the period of circa 1880 to 1910; in Pennsylvania Depa... More

Conrail Port Perry Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Port Perry, Allegheny County, PA

Conrail Port Perry Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Port Perry, All...

Part of the Monongahela River Recording Project, which included HAER PA-385, Monongahela Navation Company Lock and Dam No. 7; HAER PA-299, Monongahela Lock and Dam No. 7; and HAER PA-304, Lower Monongahela Rive... More

Conrail Port Perry Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Port Perry, Allegheny County, PA

Conrail Port Perry Bridge, Spanning Monongahela River, Port Perry, All...

Part of the Monongahela River Recording Project, which included HAER PA-385, Monongahela Navation Company Lock and Dam No. 7; HAER PA-299, Monongahela Lock and Dam No. 7; and HAER PA-304, Lower Monongahela Rive... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Central Steam Plant and Oil Storage, Vicinity of Union Avenue, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

New Haven Rail Yard, Central Steam Plant and Oil Storage, Vicinity of ...

Significance: The Central Steam Plant is significant as an important component of the New Haven Railroad's maintenance and repair facilities. It was built during a time of thriving passenger service, a period ... More

New Haven Rail Yard, Central Steam Plant and Oil Storage, Vicinity of Union Avenue, New Haven, New Haven County, CT

New Haven Rail Yard, Central Steam Plant and Oil Storage, Vicinity of ...

Significance: The Central Steam Plant is significant as an important component of the New Haven Railroad's maintenance and repair facilities. It was built during a time of thriving passenger service, a period ... More

M/V White Gull, Patuxent River, Solomons, Calvert County, MD

M/V White Gull, Patuxent River, Solomons, Calvert County, MD

Significance: White Gull is significant as an example of a Chesapeake Bay-built cabin cruiser and an example of Wilmer and Creighton Palmer's "deadrise" or V-bottom cabin cruisers. Unprocessed Field note mater... More

Mount Etna Iron Works, Mule Barn, East of U.S. Route 22 on T.R. 463, Williamsburg, Blair County, PA

Mount Etna Iron Works, Mule Barn, East of U.S. Route 22 on T.R. 463, W...

Significance: Mt. Etna Iron Works was one of numerous of charcoal iron producers in the nationally renowned Juniata Iron region. This region was a leading producer of pig iron in the antebellum years. Mt. Etn... More

518-24 South Sixth Street (Four-plex), 518-24 South Sixth Street, Jeannette, Westmoreland County, PA

518-24 South Sixth Street (Four-plex), 518-24 South Sixth Street, Jean...

Significance: A high concentration of window, tableware, bottle and specialty glass plants distinguished Jeanette as "The Glass City" early in its history. Significant housing stock consists of company-built ro... More

Sunday River Bridge, Spanning Sunday River, Newry, Oxford County, ME

Sunday River Bridge, Spanning Sunday River, Newry, Oxford County, ME

Significance: Sunday River Bridge is a very well executed speciment of the bridge truss designed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. This truss became the dominant style in covered br... More

Sunday River Bridge, Spanning Sunday River, Newry, Oxford County, ME

Sunday River Bridge, Spanning Sunday River, Newry, Oxford County, ME

Significance: Sunday River Bridge is a very well executed speciment of the bridge truss designed in the 1840s by Peter Paddleford of Littleton, New Hampshire. This truss became the dominant style in covered br... More

Pine Brook Bridge, Spanning Pine Brook on Town Highway 3, Fayston, Washington County, VT

Pine Brook Bridge, Spanning Pine Brook on Town Highway 3, Fayston, Was...

Significance: One of only four kingposts left in Vermont, this example of a once common type underwent an important repair by Milton S. Graton. It also illustrates the public policy issues surrounding historic ... More

Lincoln Logs Hotel, York Road, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Lincoln Logs Hotel, York Road, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-595 Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harp...

Significance: The train station at Harpers Ferry provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between railroad engineering and railroad economics. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin, the s... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harp...

Significance: The train station at Harpers Ferry provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between railroad engineering and railroad economics. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin, the s... More

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Harpers Ferry Station, Potomac Street, Harp...

Significance: The train station at Harpers Ferry provides an excellent opportunity to study the relationship between railroad engineering and railroad economics. Designed by architect E. Francis Baldwin, the s... More

Bennett's Mill Bridge, Spanning Tygart's Creek, East Tygart's Creek Road (CR 1215), Lynn, Greenup County, KY

Bennett's Mill Bridge, Spanning Tygart's Creek, East Tygart's Creek Ro...

Significance: The Bennett's Mill Bridge is the sole surviving Wheeler truss covered bridge in the United States. Patented in 1870 by Isaac H. Wheeler of Scioto County, Ohio, this unusual truss design never mad... More

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Aircraft Parts Receiving & Storage Building, 3855 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach, Los Angeles County, CA

Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant, Aircraft Parts Receiving & ...

Significance: Building No. 5 is one of 18 contributing buildings and two features to the Douglas Aircraft Company Long Beach Plant historic district. Activities associated with the district significantly contr... More

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Significance: Shiloh National Military Park is one of the earliest national battlefield parks. The 3,972 acre park is located in rural Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. It was established in 1894, makin... More

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Shiloh National Military Park Tour Roads, Shiloh, Hardin County, TN

Significance: Shiloh National Military Park is one of the earliest national battlefield parks. The 3,972 acre park is located in rural Hardin County in southwestern Tennessee. It was established in 1894, makin... More

River Drive Overpass, Spanning River Drive (County Route No. 507) at U.S. Route 46, Elmwood Park, Bergen County, NJ

River Drive Overpass, Spanning River Drive (County Route No. 507) at U...

Significance: The River Drive Overpass is a typical example of a single span, multiple stringer, encased steel highway overpass built during the tenure of Morris Goodkind, chief bridge engineer for the New Jers... More

Gowen Field, Recreation Building, 303 Fourth Avenue, Boise, Ada County, ID

Gowen Field, Recreation Building, 303 Fourth Avenue, Boise, Ada County...

Significance: This building is one of the only remaining World War II properties at Gowen Field that retains a high level of integrity and evokes the wartime era that distinguished the installation's service. ... More

East Broad Top Railroad, Saltillo Station, Along the East Broad Top Railroad (at milepost 18.8) and PA Route 655 (South Main Street), Saltillo, Huntingdon County, PA

East Broad Top Railroad, Saltillo Station, Along the East Broad Top Ra...

Significance: Although the East Broad Top Railroad established train service to Saltillo in 1874, the railroad's existing station building was constructed in 1892. The building was altered in 1908-09; but its p... More

East Broad Top Railroad, Saltillo Station, Along the East Broad Top Railroad (at milepost 18.8) and PA Route 655 (South Main Street), Saltillo, Huntingdon County, PA

East Broad Top Railroad, Saltillo Station, Along the East Broad Top Ra...

Significance: Although the East Broad Top Railroad established train service to Saltillo in 1874, the railroad's existing station building was constructed in 1892. The building was altered in 1908-09; but its p... More

Radar Station B-71, Operations Building, Coastal Drive, Klamath, Del Norte County, CA

Radar Station B-71, Operations Building, Coastal Drive, Klamath, Del N...

Significance: The Operations Building served as the housing for the station's radar equipment. The building's true purpose was effectively disguised from casual passersby and enemies by its location on a terra... More

Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River at U.S. Route 1, Groton, New London County, CT

Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River at U.S. Route 1, Groton, Ne...

Significance: The Mystic River Bridge is significant as an example of the Brown Balance Beam Bascule, an innovative design that raised movable-bridge technology to a new level of refinement in the early 20th ce... More

Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River at U.S. Route 1, Groton, New London County, CT

Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River at U.S. Route 1, Groton, Ne...

Significance: The Mystic River Bridge is significant as an example of the Brown Balance Beam Bascule, an innovative design that raised movable-bridge technology to a new level of refinement in the early 20th ce... More

Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River at U.S. Route 1, Groton, New London County, CT

Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River at U.S. Route 1, Groton, Ne...

Significance: The Mystic River Bridge is significant as an example of the Brown Balance Beam Bascule, an innovative design that raised movable-bridge technology to a new level of refinement in the early 20th ce... More

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon River, Eagle, Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, AK

Gold Placers Incorporated, Coak Creek Dredge, Near Coal Creek & Yukon ...

Significance: In 1934, Charles Janin, a prominent San Francisco mining engineer, designed a 4-cubic-foot dredge for Gold Placers Incorporated, a newly formed mining company organized by General A.D. McRae of Va... More

Maggie Creek Bridge, 11 miles west of Elko, Elko, Elko County, NV

Maggie Creek Bridge, 11 miles west of Elko, Elko, Elko County, NV

Survey number: HAER NV-38 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 180' Class, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 Second Street Southwest, Washington, District of Columbia, DC

U.S. Coast Guard Buoy Tenders, 180' Class, U.S. Coast Guard Headquarte...

Significance: These vessels were built to serve as 180' U.S. Coast Guard cutters. A total of thirty-nine of these cutters, built in three subclasses, were purchased by the government from 1942-1944. The USCG ... More

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park Roads, Volcano, Hawaii County, HI

See Thurston Lava Tube, HALS HI-6, for additional documentation. Significance: The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park road system provides access to active volcanoes and related landscapes along with varied ecosyst... More

Erie Canal (Original), Locks 37 & 38, 84 North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, Albany County, NY

Erie Canal (Original), Locks 37 & 38, 84 North Mohawk Street, Cohoes, ...

See also HAER NY-5, Harmony Manufacturing Company, Mill No. 3, and HAER NY-9, Cohoes Company Power Canal System, for related documentation. Significance: The state of New York built the Erie Canal between 1817 ... More

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Auxiliary Plate Shop, 912 Harbour Way, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Auxiliary Plate Shop, 912 ...

Significance: Plate shops were the first real point of production in the shipyards as workers there began to fashion raw plates and shapes into usable pieces. Richmond Yards 1, 2, and 3 each had one plate shop,... More

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Auxiliary Plate Shop, 912 Harbour Way, Richmond, Contra Costa County, CA

Rosie the Riveter National Historical Park, Auxiliary Plate Shop, 912 ...

Significance: Plate shops were the first real point of production in the shipyards as workers there began to fashion raw plates and shapes into usable pieces. Richmond Yards 1, 2, and 3 each had one plate shop,... More

Canon Ranch Eclipse Windmill, Sheffield, Pecos County, TX

Canon Ranch Eclipse Windmill, Sheffield, Pecos County, TX

Significance: The Canon Ranch "Eclipse" Windmill, "Texas Pattern" type, is the largest functional turbine-wheel style American windmill known to be in existence today, and the only known working model of its si... More

Canon Ranch Eclipse Windmill, Sheffield, Pecos County, TX

Canon Ranch Eclipse Windmill, Sheffield, Pecos County, TX

Significance: The Canon Ranch "Eclipse" Windmill, "Texas Pattern" type, is the largest functional turbine-wheel style American windmill known to be in existence today, and the only known working model of its si... More

Plank Garage, 100-104 York Road, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Plank Garage, 100-104 York Road, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-593 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Plank Garage, 100-104 York Road, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Plank Garage, 100-104 York Road, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Survey number: HAER PA-593 Public domain photograph - historical image of Pennsylvania, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease, Sheffield Field, Donaldson, Warren County, PA

Golden Oil Company, Lot 410 Lease, Sheffield Field, Donaldson, Warren ...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Avenue between Ninth & Thirteenth Streets, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Avenue between Ninth & Thirteenth Streets, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Avenue between Ninth & Thirteenth Streets, Boston, Suffolk County, MA

Charlestown Navy Yard, Shipfitters' Shop, Southeast side of First Aven...

The Boston Redevelopment Authority hired William A. Owens to document all buildings in the Charlestown Navy Yard in 1977, most of which were exterior photographs. Significance: The Charlestown Navy Yard comple... More

South Penn Oil Company, Lockwood Warrant 2921 Lease, Wardwell Field, Warren, Warren County, PA

South Penn Oil Company, Lockwood Warrant 2921 Lease, Wardwell Field, W...

Significance: Pennsylvania is the birthplace of the petroleum industry, signified by the drilling of Edwin Drake's well near Titusville in 1859. Many widely used techniques of drilling and pumping oil were fir... More

Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Turbine Building , 362 Injun Hollow Road, Haddam, Middlesex County, CT

Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Turbine Building , 362 Injun Hollow R...

This documentation also includes the 345-kilovolt transformers and the Terry Turbine Building (HAER CT-185-E). Significance: The Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant was one of the earliest commercial scale nuclear ... More

Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Turbine Building , 362 Injun Hollow Road, Haddam, Middlesex County, CT

Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant, Turbine Building , 362 Injun Hollow R...

This documentation also includes the 345-kilovolt transformers and the Terry Turbine Building (HAER CT-185-E). Significance: The Haddam Neck Nuclear Power Plant was one of the earliest commercial scale nuclear ... More

Cambria Iron Company, East side of Conemaugh River, Johnstown, Cambria County, PA

Cambria Iron Company, East side of Conemaugh River, Johnstown, Cambria...

Significance: The Cambria Ironworks is a part of a National Historic Landmark district recognized for its association with such renowned figures as John Fritz, Captain Bill Jones, Daniel J. Morrell, and William... More

Yuma Main Street Water Treatment Plant, Jones Street at foot of Main Street, Yuma, Yuma County, AZ

Yuma Main Street Water Treatment Plant, Jones Street at foot of Main S...

STORED OFF SITE AND ON SITE. mchr Significance: It represents a largely intact example of an early water treatment plant utilizing settling reservoirs and slow sand filters. The historic value of the plant is f... More

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