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Historic and attractions
The city's tourist attractions include the Galveston Schlitterbahn waterpark, Moody Gardens botanical park, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum, the Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston Railroad Museum, a downtown neighborhood of historic buildings known as The Strand, many historical museums and mansions, and miles of beach front from the East End's Porretto Beach, Stewart Beach to the West End pocket parks. Also there is a pier-turned-amusement park that opened May 2012. it is called Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier.
Tourist attractions include Montezuma Castle National Monument, Fort Verde State Historic Park, and Out of Africa Wildlife Park.
In 2005, the cartoonist and historian Pap Dean published Historic Natchitoches: Beauty of the Cane, a study of the history, people, and attractions of the historic city.
Major attractions are Historic Deerfield, a National Historic Landmark district with eleven house museums and a regional museum and visitors ' center, and the Yankee Candle Company.
Among the many tourist attractions, Lowell also currently has 39 places on the National Register of Historic Places including many buildings and structures as part of the Lowell National Historical Park.
Grantwood Village is home to two major attractions: the Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site ( White Haven ) and Grant's Farm.
Historical attractions near or in Blue Springs include: Missouri Town 1855, Fort Ossage National Historic Site, Dillingham-Lewis House Museum, Chicago & Alton Hotel Museum, and the Lone Jack Civil War Museum.
Elk City is also in close proximity to many other attractions in Western Oklahoma, including the Flying W Guest Ranch, Foss State Park, the Washita National Wildlife Refuge, Black Kettle National Grassland, the Wichita Mountains, the Antelope Hills, the Quartz Mountains, the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, and the Black Kettle Museum.
Nearby attractions include Golden Spike National Historic Site, which lies northwest of the city near Promontory Summit.
Local attractions include Fort Michilimackinac, the Mackinac Bridge, the Mackinaw Crossings shopping mall, Mill Creek, the Old Mackinac Point Light, the Historic Village, the McGulpin Point Light, and the retired US Coast Guard Icebreaker Mackinaw.
It also has a growing number of tourist attractions such as the adjacent South Street Seaport Historic District, New York City Police Museum, and Museum of American Finance.
Other cultural attractions in the city include the Historic Museum is in the Civic Centre of the State Congress and focuses the history of the state through photographs and documents.
Other adjacent visitor attractions include Trinidad State Beach, Patrick's Point State Park, and Fort Humboldt State Historic Park.
Current historical attractions on the island include Holland House with an associated folk museum and the Knap of Howar Neolithic farmstead ( Historic Scotland ).
It is convenient to the Jamestown Ferry and Virginia's Historic Triangle of the colonial era, featuring the major tourist attractions of Jamestown, Williamsburg, and Yorktown, linked by the National Park Service's Colonial Parkway.
Two attractions of note are Acrophobia, installed in 2001 as the world's first " floorless " freefall tower ride, and the Riverview Carousel, one of only three remaining five-abreast carousels known to exist and a member of the National Register of Historic Places.
In addition, VPM offers collaborative field trips with related Birmingham attractions ( Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, or Ruffner Mountain Nature Center ) and programs that bring the story of Vulcan to life through theatre, dance and musical performances.
They apparently felt that augmenting the attractions of the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia ( Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, and Yorktown ) with other attractions which would help draw future families to the region, as well as help balance out the local economy.
Cochrane houses attractions such as Cochrane Ranche Historic Site and Bert Sheppard Stockmen's Foundation Library And Archives, located in the Cochrane Ranchehouse.
All three attractions are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Virginia's Historic Triangle area is one of the world's greatest tourist attractions, with Dr. Goodwin's Bruton Parish Church and Colonial Williamsburg as the centerpiece.
The Historic Triangle is located on the Virginia Peninsula of the United States and includes the colonial communities of Jamestown, Colonial Williamsburg, and Yorktown, with many restored attractions linked by the Colonial Parkway in James City and York counties and the City of Williamsburg.

Historic and open
The Abbey is cared for by Historic Scotland and is open to the public throughout the year ( entrance charge ).
Aberdour Castle is now in the care of Historic Scotland and open to the public ( entrance charge ).
John Alden's House, now a National Historic Landmark, was built in 1653 and is open to the public as a museum.
Hanford archaeologists have identified numerous Native American sites, including " pit house villages, open campsites, fishing sites, hunting / kill sites, game drive complexes, quarries, and spirit quest sites ", and two archaeological sites were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Wild Bank, his seaside house on Hicks Lane, has been designated a National Historic Landmark, although it remains a private home and is not open to the public.
Now called the General Lew Wallace Study, it has been designated a National Historic Landmark and is operated as a house museum, open to the public.
America's first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court served in every branch of US government and his boyhood home is now a National Historic Landmark, open to the public.
Monticello was featured in Bob Vila's A & E Network production, Guide to Historic Homes of America, in a tour which included Honeymoon Cottage and the Dome Room, which is open to the public during a limited number of tours each year.
The Philip Johnson Glass House is a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and now open to the public for tours.
From time to time, these establishments are open to public visitation during Historic Garden Week.
Carter's birthplace and childhood home has been designated a National Historic Site and is open for tours.
Built in 1886, this plantation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is open to the public for retreats, family reunions and tours.
Columbia's main street, part of the Columbia State Historic Park, is closed to automobile traffic but is open to horses, carriages, bicycles and pedestrians.
Roseland Cottage was purchased by Historic New England in 1970 and is currently open to the public for tours.
Black's Store, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, was the first mercantile store to open in Northwest Illinois.
The house, which is open for tours, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
One of his residences in Kingston, Bellevue House, is now a popular National Historic Site of Canada open to the public and depicting the house as it would have been in the 1840s when he lived there.
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St. Francisville is currently a popular tourism destination with a number of restored historic plantations open daily for tours, including Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site, Audubon State Historic Site, Butler Greenwood Plantation, The Myrtles, The Cottage Plantation and Greenwood Plantation, as well as several antebellum gardens.
It is now preserved as the Hampton National Historic Site and open to the public.
The Village is open every Friday and Saturday in June, July and August from 12-4, and Historic Village Days event takes place the first weekend in August.
The depot and the nearby old U. S. Customs House ( moved in 1980 from Macomb Street to its present location ), also owned and maintained by the GIHS, are the only structures in the National Historic District along East River Road that are regularly open to the public.
It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is open to visitors on Sunday afternoons, from 1 to 4, from April through December, excepting holidays.

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