Bodie Island Lighthouse – Cape Hatteras National Seashore

The current Bodie Island Lighthouse is the third that has stood in this vicinity of Bodie Island on the Outer Banks in North Carolina and was built in 1872. It stands on the Roanoke Sound side of the first island that is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The lighthouse is just south of Nags Head. It was extensively renovated from August 2009 to March 2013.

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse – Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Buxton, North Carolina)

Cape Hatteras Light is a lighthouse located on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks in the town of Buxton, North Carolina and is part of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The original light was built in 1802 with a new tower constructed in 1870. In ensuing years encroachment by the sea has necessitated moving of the tower inland several times.

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Wright Brothers National Memorial – Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

Wright Brothers National Memorial, located in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, commemorates the first successful, sustained, powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine. From 1900 to 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright came here from Dayton, Ohio, based on information from the U.S. Weather Bureau about the area’s steady winds. They also valued the privacy provided by this location, which in the early twentieth century was remote from major population centers.

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Yorktown Battlefield – Colonial National Historical Park (Yorktown, Virginia)

At the northern end of the Colonial Parkway in The Colonial National Historical Park, in Yorktown, is the Yorktown Battlefield. The Nelson House, which was built around 1724, and may have served as Cornwallis’s headquarters during the final battle of the Revolutionary War, and the battlefield was the site of the British defeat. Both the house and the historic siege earthworks were restored in 1976. The Moore House is located in the eastern part of the park and is where surrender negotiations took place in 1781.

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The field where Cornwallis surrendered.

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Richmond National Battlefield Park – Richmond, Virginia

The Richmond National Battlefield Park commemorates 13 American Civil War sites around Richmond, Virginia, which served as the capital of the Confederate States of America for most of the war. The park connects certain features within the city with defensive fortifications and battle sites around it.
The Tredegar Iron Works was the chief ironworks of the Confederacy, and a big factor in the decision to make Richmond its capital. It supplied about half the artillery used by the Confederate States Army.

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the Chimborazo Hospital was the Confederacy’s biggest hospital camp, accommodating up to 4000 patients at a time, mainly for convalescence.

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Other battlefield sites around Richmond include sites associated with the Peninsula Campaign, The Seven Days Battles, The Overland Campaign and the siege of Petersburg.

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