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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.
A property has interpretive value if the property embodies associations to important events, the lives and works of important or outstanding persons, or embodies the style or type of character associated with important patterns of events or actions in the history of Guam. c. A property has research value if the property provides a context from ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Asan-Maina (Chamorro: Assan-Ma'ina) is a village located on the western shore of the United States territory of Guam.The municipality combines the names of the coastal community of Asan with Maina, a community along the slopes of the Fonte River valley to the east.