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An obelisk commemorating Lincoln's role in connecting the coasts.

The remains of a bustling turn-of-the-century park built to showcase the wonders of electricity.

The first woman in the United States to get a driver's license is buried here.

Dedicated to a college founder's alleged ancestor who was martyred in 1555.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.

A stone marker dedicated to the “Father of American Education.”

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

Location of the first public performance and singing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

A stone marker dedicated to a Black veteran of the American Revolution who refused to leave his land near Walden Pond.

Since 1929, millions have sought miraculous healing and solace from this unknown yet deeply revered Irish priest.

The former home of a Boston physician whose murder led to a revolution in forensic science.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

The oldest continuously inhabited private home in the United States.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

Once an integral part of Native American life, very few of these communal New England stones have survived to the present day.

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

Harry Houdini plunged into the Charles River and performed one of his escape acts here in 1908.

This statue is a commemoration of the only place where Freud spoke in the United States.

The birthplace of the man who patented the cotton gin and pioneered interchangeable parts.

This mill played a key role in the region’s development and it is just one of ten along the east coast of the United States.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.