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In addition to Peacefield, home to four generations of the Adams family, the park's main historic features include the John Adams Birthplace (October 30, 1735), the nearby John Quincy Adams Birthplace (July 11, 1767), and the Stone Library (built in 1870 to house the books of John Quincy Adams and believed to be the first presidential library ...
This is the house in which United States President John Adams was born on October 30, 1735. It is now part of the Adams National Historical Park. [4] [5] 3: John Quincy Adams Birthplace: John Quincy Adams Birthplace
Adams Memorial: Authorized by Public Law 107-62 ... Presidio of San Francisco; California: 82,136.12 acres (332.3931 km 2) ... National Park Service Office of Public ...
Presidio Park is a city historic park in San Diego, California. It is the site where the San Diego Presidio and the San Diego Mission , the first European settlements in what is now the West Coast of the United States , were founded in 1769.
The area between the eastern end of Faneuil Hall and Congress Street is part of Boston National Historical Park. In this landscape is a nineteenth-century sculpture of Samuel Adams [28] created by sculptor Anne Whitney. The granite plaza surface is marked for 850 feet (260 m) with the approximate location of the early colonial shoreline c. 1630.
Upon his death in 1927, the house became a museum run by the Adams Memorial Society, until it was incorporated into the National Park Service in 1946. The park later acquired nearby sites including the John Adams Birthplace and John Quincy Adams Birthplace, which together with the visitor center constitute Adams National Historical Park.
El Presidio Real de San Diego (Royal Presidio of San Diego) is a historic fort in San Diego, California. It was established on May 14, 1769, by Gaspar de Portolá , leader of the first European land exploration of Alta California —at that time an unexplored northwestern frontier area of New Spain .
Hy Hintermeister (either John Henry or his son Henry), Revere arousing Hancock and Adams. At about 10:00 p.m., the night of April 18, 1775, Joseph Warren asked Paul Revere to contact John Hancock and Samuel Adams in Lexington about the movement of British troops. Warren and Hancock were members of the Committee of safety and Revere had been ...