National Historical Park

The bell tower on Independence Hall where the Liberty Bell used to hang ( Independence National Historical Park )

A National Historical Park in the United States of America is a facility or site that is historically significant as a monument . Almost all of the National Historic Parks are owned by the US federal government and are managed by the National Park Service under the umbrella of the Department of the Interior.

Examples of National Historical Parks are:

• The Chaco Culture National Historical Park - a settlement center of the Pueblo culture between 850 and 1250.
• The village of Appomattox Court House - in 1865, the Northern Virginia Army of the Confederate Army at the end of the Civil War capitulated.
• The Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park - the site of the Klondike Gold Rush in Alaska , 1896.

Individual historically significant buildings or smaller-scale federal monuments are designated as National Historic Sites .

List of National Historical Parks

There are 57 National Historical Parks (as of 2020):

Surname	State
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park	Kentucky
Adams National Historical Park	Massachusetts
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park	Virginia
Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park	Rhode Island , Massachusetts
Boston National Historical Park	Massachusetts
Cane River Creole National Historical Park	Louisiana
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park	Virginia
Chaco Culture National Historical Park	New Mexico
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park	Maryland , Washington, DC , West Virginia
Colonial National Historical Park Cape Henry Memorial Colonial Parkway Jamestown National Historic Site (assigned area) Yorktown Battlefield Yorktown National Cemetery	Virginia
Cumberland Gap National Historical Park	Kentucky , Tennessee , Virginia
Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park	Ohio
First State National Historical Park	Delaware , Pennsylvania
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park	South carolina
George Rogers Clark National Historical Park	Indiana
Golden Spike National Historical Park	Utah
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park	West Virginia
Harriet Tubman National Historical Park	new York
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park	Maryland
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park	Ohio
Independence National Historical Park Benjamin Franklin National Memorial (assigned area) Deshler-Morris House Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church National Historic Site (assigned area) Independence Hall National Constitution Center Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial	Pennsylvania
Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve Chalmette National Cemetery	Louisiana
Kalaupapa National Historical Park	Hawaii
Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park	Hawaii
Keweenaw National Historical Park	Michigan
Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park	Alaska , Washington
Lewis and Clark National Historical Park Fort Clatsop	Oregon , Washington
Lowell National Historical Park	Massachusetts
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park	Texas
Manhattan Project National Historical Park	New Mexico , Tennessee , Washington
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park	Vermont
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park	Georgia
Minute Man National Historical Park	Massachusetts
Morristown National Historical Park	New Jersey
Natchez National Historical Park	Mississippi
New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park	Massachusetts
New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park	Louisiana
Nez Perce National Historical Park	Idaho , Montana , Oregon , Washington
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park	Georgia
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park	Texas
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park	New Jersey
Pecos National Historical Park	New Mexico
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park	Hawaii
Reconstruction Era National Historical Park	South carolina
Rosie the Riveter / World War II Home Front National Historical Park	California
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park	New Hampshire
Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve	American Virgin Islands
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park	Texas
San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park	California
San Juan Island National Historical Park	Washington
Saratoga National Historical Park	new York
Sitka National Historical Park	Alaska
Thomas Edison National Historical Park	New Jersey
Tumacácori National Historical Park	Arizona
Valley Forge National Historical Park	Pennsylvania
Was in the Pacific National Historical Park	Guam
Women's Rights National Historical Park	new York

Web links

• National Park Service List of Conservation Area Categories