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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Space Launch Complex 10
First built in 1958 to test missiles, it was used to launch space missions from 1963 to 1980. It is now a rare, well preserved example of the equipment and facilities from that era.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: San Diego Mission Church
This was the first Spanish Mission in Alta California and the start of El Camino Real. Originally located in the Presidio of San Diego, it later moved a few miles away. The nearby Old Mission Dam, also a NHL, provided water for milling...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ca: Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites
A major crossroads for Alta California as well as the Westward expansion of the United States. It has several archaeological and historical sites, shared with Arizona across the Colorado River, including Fort Yuma and other state parks.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Alma (Scow Schooner)
Flat-bottomed scow schooner that was built in 1891 and used in San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Now part of the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Official plaque located in the San Francisco...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Hercules Tug Boat
This 1907 steam tug is now a museum ship at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Official plaque located in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Visitor Center, located at the corner of Hyde and Jefferson...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in California: Aquatic Park Historic District
Streamline Moderne beach, pier, and public bathhouse built by the WPA in 1936. Official plaque located in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Visitor Center, located at the corner of Hyde and Jefferson Streets.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Parsons Memorial Lodge
This solidly built structure was the first stone structure in a National Park. It was built by the Sierra Club and is still standing today with only minor variations. It reflects the Bay Area architecture influences of Bernard Maybeck as...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ca: Old Sacramento Historic District
Built up after the California Gold Rush, this historic district also includes the NHL locations of the Pony Express Terminal and the Big Four House.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in California: Point Reyes Lifeboat Station
Last remaining instance of a USLS rail launched lifeboat station, commonly used on the Pacific coast. This site rescued crews from ships that foundered on Point Reyes. It is now protected as part of the Point Reyes National Seashore.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Jack London Ranch
Home of Jack London from 1905 until his death.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in California: Eureka (Double Ended Ferry)
Side-wheel paddle steamboat; built in 1890 by the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company; preserved at the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park. Official plaque located in the San Francisco Maritime National...
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in California: Little Tokyo Historic District
An ethnic Japanese American district in downtown Los Angeles, one of three official Japantowns in the United States.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ca: Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House
Designed by Lou Henry Hoover, wife of Herbert Hoover, this is where the Hoovers lived before and after his presidency. It is now the official residence of the president of Stanford University.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Frank Norris Cabin
Also known as Redwood Retreat this was the home of author Frank Norris in the last year of his life.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Balboa Park
1,200 acre (4.9 square kilometers) urban cultural complex in San Diego. Reserved in 1855, it is one of the oldest public recreation sites in the US. It includes open areas and vegetation as well as museums, theaters, gardens, shops,...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Tao House
America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright Eugene O'Neill lived here from 1937 to 1944 while writing his final and most memorable plays: The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon for the Misbegotten.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Cabrillo National Monument
Located at the southern tip of the Point Loma Peninsula, it commemorates the landing of Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo at San Diego Bay on September 28, 1542.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Carmel Mission
The second Roman Catholic California Mission Church, this was the headquarters of the padre presidente, Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen . It was destroyed in the mid-19th century and restored in 1884 and 1920. It remains a parish...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Harada House
Property involved in 1916-1918 constitutional test of an alien land law; at issue was the rights of the children of a Japanese immigrant.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Coso Rock Art District
Over 20,000 Indian petroglyphs are located in this NHLD, which also incorporates two earlier NHLs Big and Little Petroglyph Canyons. The site is located within Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Ca: The Abbey, Joaquin Miller House
Joaquin Miller, known as the "Poet of the Sierras", lived here from 1886 until his death in 1913.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Big Four House
Built in 1852; house where Collis Huntington, Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford, and Charles Crocker organized the Central Pacific railway and founded the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Sutter's Fort
A 19th century agricultural and trade colony, it was known for its connection to the Donner Party, the California Gold Rush, and the formation of Sacramento as well as its proximity to the California Trail and Siskiyou Trails. Now a...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in California: Hearst San Simeon Estate
Built by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst; open for public tours; Hearst formally named the estate "La Cuesta Encantada".