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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...

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

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

Clara Barton National Historic Site

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

Charles Pinckney National Historic Site

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

Chicago Portage National Historic Site

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

First Ladies National Historic Site

(Encyclopedia)First Ladies 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). ...