{"id":1869,"date":"2017-03-24T20:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T03:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2017-03-24T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T03:05:33","slug":"american-historic-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/american-historic-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"American Historic Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>National Parks Service<\/strong> has charge of <strong>90,540<\/strong> listings in their register. This is all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii and U.S. territories. It includes shipwrecks and lighthouses; historic houses and districts; the white House, the Capitol, and the Supreme Court building.<\/p>\n<p>After careful research beginning as far back as 1954, and ending with Google maps for walking directions so you can examine each site on foot&#8211;close up and personal&#8211;the final list includes 49,603 total sites: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/andrea-sachs\/?utm_term=.aea354e04d6e\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/andrea-sachs\/?utm_term=.aea354e04d6e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And two maps&#8211;one, showing the routes from site to site and two, a colored map showing each state. Utah has many historical sites; Nevada has only a few. The states east of the Mississippi are almost solid color&#8211;especially the state of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>A companion piece maps all of the pubs in the United Kingdom, and 647 historic sites. Take a look.<\/p>\n<p>Historic places include monuments or plaques describing why the site is historic and who is memorialized. It can include cemeteries, railroad sites, Indian excavations&#8211;and there will be historic brochures, full-blown histories, sets of photographs, post cards, and slides. While the houses and districts were omitted from the United States maps, these are included in the National Parks register.<\/p>\n<p>Did your family or ancestor have a plaque or monument or history? You probably won&#8217;t know until you look! Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle. <a href=\"http:\/\/arleneeakle.com\">http:\/\/arleneeakle.com. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS And check out the full article that appeared in the Washington Post written by Andrea Sachs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Parks Service has charge of 90,540 listings in their register. This is all 50 states, including Alaska and Hawaii and U.S. territories. It includes shipwrecks and lighthouses; historic houses and districts; the white House, the Capitol, and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2017\/03\/24\/american-historic-sites\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[162,159,160,161],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-andrea-sachs","tag-historic-sites","tag-national-park-service","tag-washington-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}