List of national historic sites and historical parks of the United States

[5] It then established Morristown National Historical Park, the 1779–1780 winter encampment of the Continental Army in New Jersey, on March 2, 1933, as the first NHP: The U.S. House committee noted that the new designation was logical for the area and set a new precedent, with comparison to the national military parks, which were then in the War Department.

[6] President Franklin D. Roosevelt reorganized the agency to also oversee memorials and military parks with historic significance later in 1933, substantially broadening the NPS's mandate.

"[8] This expanded upon the Antiquities Act of 1906, which gave the President the ability to order "the protection of objects of historic and scientific interest."

Initially the Secretary of the Interior could designate national historic sites, though this did not include funding for acquition or administration without congressional action.

From the 1960s to 1990s, the NPS evolved from a thematic framework, in which numerous specific themes and subthemes of American history were expected to each be included in some way in the system,[11] to a conceptual framework, whereby both new and existing park units would be examined more holistically for ways to study history such as "creating social movements and institutions," "developing the American economy," and "peopling places."

[7] National historic sites are generally federally owned and administered properties, though some remain under private or local government ownership.

In 1937, the first NHS was created in Salem, Massachusetts, in order to preserve and interpret the maritime history of New England and the United States.

There is one International Historic Site in the US park system, a unique designation given to Saint Croix Island, Maine, on the New Brunswick border.

The title, given to the site of the first permanent French settlement in America, recognizes the influence that it has had on both Canada and the United States.

Tens of thousands of prospectors took this trail in hopes of making their fortunes in the Klondike River district of Yukon.