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Fort Beauséjour

(Encyclopedia)Fort Beauséjour bōsāzho͞orˈ [key], N.B., Canada, near Amherst, N.S. Built by the French between 1751 and 1755 to command Chignecto isthmus between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, it was captured (...

Fort Union

(Encyclopedia)Fort Union, trading post of the American Fur Company, erected in 1828 near the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, on the Mont.-N.Dak. line; it controlled converging routes of travel fr...

Lincoln Home National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Lincoln Home National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Jimmy Carter National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Minuteman Missile National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Minuteman Missile National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

John Muir National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)John Muir National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Herbert Hoover National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Andrew Johnson National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Andrew Johnson National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...

Ford's Theatre National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)Ford's Theatre National Historic Site: see National Parks and Monuments (table)national parks and monuments (table). ...