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Boerne, Texas
Robert E. Lee House
This small, 19th-century structure is all the remains of a once lively travelers' inn that General Robert E. Lee frequented.
Marietta, Georgia
Gone With the Wind Museum
This 19th-century building showcases memorabilia from the acclaimed 1939 film.
Hillsboro, West Virginia
Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park
West Virginia’s first state park commemorates one of the state’s last significant Civil War battles.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Lothrop Wight Penny
This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.
Fernandina Beach, Florida
Fort Clinch
Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.
Humboldt, Kansas
Humboldt Raid Civil War Monuments
Twelve unique carved plaques across Humboldt tell a story of the ingenuity and bravery of ordinary citizens during the city's burning.
Suffolk, Virginia
Great Dismal Swamp
An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.
Boston, Massachusetts
Leonard A. Grimes Residence
The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Homosassa, Florida
Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park
Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
Innis House
A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.
McCalla, Alabama
Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park
The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.
Herndon, Virginia
Mosby's Rock
A secret rendezvous spot where John S. Mosby and his Rangers would meet to divvy up their loot after raids.
Akron, Ohio
John Brown Monument
A moving tribute to a leader of the American abolitionist movement.
Arlington, Virginia
Abner Doubleday Gravesite
Though his role as the inventor of baseball may be up for debate, fans still festoon Doubleday's grave with baseballs.
Washington, D.C.
Arsenal Monument
A striking memorial to the 21 lives lost in an explosion at the Washington Arsenal
Charleston, South Carolina
Robert Smalls Memorial
This small memorial is almost as well concealed as Smalls himself was on the night he sailed to freedom.
Brandy Station, Virginia
Graffiti House
At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
Dinosaur Kingdom II
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.
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