Mid-Atlantic

“Thine alabaster cities gleam”

(Pictures and places in bold are places I have been to.)

Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

Pennsylvania

1. Philadelphia (including Independence Hall, Independence National Historical Park – a World Heritage Site)

2. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater (part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site)

3. Pennsylvania Dutch and Amish Country

4. Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area

Honorable mentions: Gettysburg National Military Park (72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Monument – America the Beautiful quarter image), Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pittsburgh, Moravian Bethlehem District – Pennsylvania (World Heritage Tentative List) (an extension to Christiansfeld, a Moravian Church Settlement, Denmark)

High Point State Park
High Point State Park

New Jersey

1. Atlantic City

2. Pine Barrens

Honorable mention: Thomas Edison National Historical Park, Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park, and Morristown National Historical Park/Crossroads of the American Revolution National Heritage Area

Delaware

1. First State National Historical Park

2. New Sweden Delaware Valley Historic Sites (shared with Pensylvania and New Jersey)

Honorable mention: Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge (America the Beautiful quarter image)

Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine
USS Constellation, Baltimore Inner Harbor
USS Constellation, Baltimore Inner Harbor

Maryland

1. Baltimore (Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine – America the Beautiful quarter image)

2. Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park

3. Assateague Island National Seashore

4. Annapolis

Honorable mention: Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument

U.S. Capitol Building, Washington DC
U.S. Capitol Building, Washington DC

Washington DC

1. Washington DC (Frederick Douglass National Historic Site – America the Beautiful quarter image)

George Washington's Mount Vernon
George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Virginia

1. George Washington’s Mount Vernon (World Heritage Tentative List)

2. Colonial National Historical Park (Historic Jamestowne and Yorktown)

3. Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and the University of Virginia (a World Heritage Site), plus Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest and the Virginia State Capitol (World Heritage Tentative List)

4. Colonial Williamsburg

5. Shenandoah National Park (Stony Man Trail summit – America the Beautiful quarter image), plus nearby Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park

West Virginia

1. New River Gorge National Park and Preserve

2. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (John Brown’s Fort – America the Beautiful quarter image)