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Map of Guam. This is a list of the buildings, sites, districts, and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Guam. There are currently 134 listed sites spread across 17 of the 19 villages of Guam. The villages of Agana Heights and Mongmong-Toto-Maite do not have any listings.
Guam Congress Building: Agana August 8, 2001 February 1, 2007 1115 Guam Institute, Jose P. Lujan House: Agana May 4, 1977 October 6, 1977 1052 Japanese Caves Agana August 21, 1975 1972 Marine Drive Monument Agana September 27, 2004 1141 Mesa House: Agana April 2, 1984 February 8, 1985 1070 Plaza de Espana: Agana January 21, 1975 May 1, 1974 1033
Many villages have rich histories reaching back thousands of years. Artifacts from ancient Chamorro settlements can be found in every village of Guam. When the Spanish Empire colonized the Marianas Islands as part of its Pacific possessions in the 16th and 17th centuries, the island was divided into separate districts with each district consisting of a parish with a village center governed by ...
The set of structures are Guam's oldest concrete buildings. And the set is the only surviving group of pre- World War II houses in Agana, "the only fragment left of old Agana's urban space." While a few scattered other individual structures survive, all else has been destroyed by World War II, termites, typhoons Karen of 1962 and Pamela of 1976 ...
The history of Guam starts with the early arrival around 2000 BC of Austronesian people known today as the Chamorro Peoples. The Chamorus then developed a "pre-contact" society, that was colonized by the Spanish in the 17th century. The present American rule of the island began with the 1898 Spanish–American War.
Nov. 11—The U.S. Coast Guard officially announced the establishment of U.S. Coast Guard Base Guam on Wednesday as the service continues to build up its presence in the Pacific.
The Guam International Trade Center (ITC) building houses the department's headquarters. The Guam Department of Land Management (DLM, Chamorro: Dipåttamenton Minanehan Tåno’) is a department of the government on the United States territory of Guam. The department has its headquarters in the Guam International Trade Center (ITC) Building in ...
Jose L.G. Rios Middle School, the Piti Guns Unit of War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church, and village government buildings are located here. The Guam Veterans Cemetery is located immediately south, at the intersection of Marine Corps Drive and Guam Highway 6, known as Spruance Halsey Drive.