American Heritage: Historic Sites, Museums and Battlefields across the US

In 2005, the Weeksville Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford Stuyvesant officially became Weeksville Heritage Center. The center is dedicated to preserving the historic Hunterfly Road Houses and the significant history they represent.

Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site is nestled on the campus of historic Tuskegee University; the site includes the George W. Carver Museum and The Oaks, home of Booker T. Washington

Mary Surratt's home was a Confederate underground location central to the assassination plot on Abraham Lincoln.

One of few surviving 17th- century frame houses in New England is now a museum of local history housing several Amistad artifacts.

The St. Mary's County Historical Society features two museums: one in Tudor Hall and the Old Jail.

The Selma to Montgomery National Voting Rights Trail was established by Congress in 1996 to commemorate the events, people, and route of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama.

The museum, which is dedicated to local African-American history, is accompanied by a theatre.

Designed by famed New England architect, Charles Bulfinch, and completed in 1796, the Old Statehouse was the first of Bulfinch's public buildings in his dignified Adamesque Federal style.

This archaeological site used to be one of the most prominent tobacco plantations in the country.

The town of Nicodemus, Kansas was settled and founded by former slaves in 1877 and the park stands today as a memorial to the lives and fights for freedom of the former slaves.

The New Castle Court House is the oldest surviving government building in Delaware.

The Negro Leagues existed in the era of Jim Crow and segregation as a comfortable and competitive outlet for African-Americans who loved to play baseball and this museum exists to preserve this rich history.

The center recounts the story of the struggle for freedom in the United States through exhibits and programs that focus on America's battle to rid itself of the ugly scourge of slavery and treat all its citizens with respect and dignity.

This museum near Dayton aims to educate the public about African American history and culture from African origins to the present through a variety of programs, including museum exhibits, research and publications, visiting scholars, oral and visual history and adult and children's educational activities.

Southern Florida has a rich heritage of Caribbean and African influence; this home and district display some of the historic firsts made by African and Caribbean immigrants in the area.

A part of the legendary Underground Railroad for fleeing slaves of pre-Civil War days, this registered National Historic Landmark is a Federal style brick home built in 1839.

Built in 1768, the Johnson House served as a station stop on the Underground Railroad during the 1850s.

The John G. Riley Center now features a museum chronicling African-American history and culture in the region.

This historic plantation home was built in 1835 by Captain William Jenkins and was home to the Confederate Brigadier General Albert Gallatin Jenkins.

The reconstructed site of the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

The Idaho Black History Museum was founded in 1995 and currently is the only African American history museum in the Pacific Northwest.

The Historical Society of Seabrook offers genealogy research help as well as information about the history of Seabrook.

The mansion and grounds at Hampton tell the story of its past residents.

Here, the young boy known as the “Plant Doctor,” tended his secret garden while observing the day to day operations of a successful 19th century farm.

An exploration of African-American influence upon Texan and American history can be seen at the George Washington Carver Museum.

This antebellum mansion was home to Major Robert Gamble and headquarters of an extensive sugar plantation.

Although the fort was demolished, the site is historically significant as a 18th-century Spanish settlement for blacks freed from slavery in the British Carolinas.

Fort Garland is a historic milestone of the fort once commanded by the legendary frontiersman Kit Carson.

Religiously and historically significant, the church is the third oldest black Baptist church congregation in the United States and the oldest in Kentucky.

Constructed in 1880, this one-room schoolhouse was the first public school for black children of Howard County.

The hometown of Johnny Carson showcases his formative years, the 30 years on the Tonight Show, and the six Emmy's he received during that time.

This Italianate turn-of-the-century structure was the final home of the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.

The home of one of Miami's first black physicians has been restored as an educational center on the grounds of Booker T. Washington High School.

Originally a European wine merchant's winter residence and hunting grounds, New Yorker Frederick deBary transformed the site into an oasis of entertainment and leisure in the 1870s.

Three exceptional men from Dayton, Ohio, Wilbur Wright, Orville Wright and Paul Laurence Dunbar, found their creative outlet here through accomplishments and failures, and finally success.

On Cumberland Island, visitors can walk in the footsteps of early natives, explorers, and wealthy industrialists.

The main production site for the Confederacy is now a Civil War museum concerned with Union, Confederate, and African-American perspectives.

Located at the southern tip of Manhattan Island, Castle Clinton represents not only the growth of New York City, but the growth of a nation as well.

The facility nurtures the cultural heritage embodied in the site since its dedication in 1942 as a 4-H camp for West Virginia's African-American youth.

The California African American Museum documents African American contributions to the West Coast and the America in general, from the country's settlement to present day.

Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site keeps alive and furthers the legacy of the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that forever changed this country’s history.

Boston African American National Historic Site is comprised of the largest area of pre-Civil War black owned structures in the U.S.

Author and orator Booker T. Washington was born in this small plantation, where he eventually took his "first breath of freedom."

In the era of segregation, these buildings functioned as the center of African-American executive and judicial authority in Miami.

Founded in 1971 by Paul W. Stewart, the museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving and disseminating the contributions of Blacks in the Old West.

Dr. James Weems built this plantation house in 1740. Today, it is one of the oldest buildings in the area and an invaluable piece of colonial architectural history.

This museum tracks local Virginia history through exhibits on war and minorities.

The Beck Cultural Exchange Center is an interactive museum that researches and exhibits African American achievements.

This museum of African American culture and history in Maryland sits in the former Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church in Annapolis' historic district.

This center works to preserve and display the history of African Americans in Charleston and its surrounding areas.

Scholars, students, musicians, and fans are drawn to the American Jazz Museum to learn about the legends, honor their legacy, or simply enjoy the best music America has to offer.

This 1847 Greek Revival structure saw both the ascendancy of the Confederacy prior to the Civil War and the triumph of civil rights solidarity with the 1965 Voting Rights March.

This historical site commemorates the burial place of thousands of free and enslaved Africans from the late 17th century through the 18th century.

The first institution built by a major U.S. city to house and interpret the life and work of African Americans, the Museum allows visitors to experience the richness of African American culture.

The African American Museum and Library at Oakland shares the historical and cultural experiences of African Americans in California and the West.