It received its designation because its architecture is symbolic of affluent society in the 1920s, according to its National Register of Historic Places nomination form. Mar-a-Lago, the Florida estate now owned and used as a primary residence by former President Donald Trump, was designated as a national historic site in 1980 several years before Trump’s purchase after the death of cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. The report also names several presidential sites, including the Camp David presidential retreat, the Maine home of the Bush family, President Richard Nixon's "Western White House" in California, President Harry Truman's "Little White House" in Florida, and secret emergency bunkers that were built near President John Kennedy's vacation homes in Massachusetts and Florida. Two ships are also on the list: the USS New Jersey, which was used in the Korean and Vietnam wars and is now a museum in the city of Camden in its namesake state, and the USS Turner Joy, which was involved in the Gulf of Tonkin incident and is now a museum in Washington state. The report also identifies three launch sites of Atlas intercontinental ballistic missiles in California, Wyoming and Colorado. anti-aircraft missile have been demolished or reconfigured, but sites that still exist include ones in Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California, Everglades National Park in Florida, and Fort Hancock and the Sandy Hook Proving Ground in New Jersey, as well as sites in Alaska and Indiana.
Most of the approximately 256 bases for the first U.S. Other weapons sites include several former Nike missile bases. It separately lists the "Sedan crater" within the Nevada site that was created in a 1962 nuclear test meant to explore the use of nuclear detonations to excavate earth. The report also lists the nuclear test site in Nye County, Nevada, where more than 1,000 nuclear tests happened. For example, the report names the Bikini Atoll nuclear test site in the Marshall Islands that the United States used for 23 nuclear tests, causing "devastating damage." Many of the other two dozen places named in the report are also associated with weapons and testing. Another study of its eligibility is already underway, according to the report. Most sites associated with the Cold War are not that old, and many were demolished as they were deactivated from military use.Īmong the sites the study suggests could be eligible is a B-29 bomber that crashed in Lake Mead, Nevada, in 1948 while testing an experimental guidance system for an intercontinental ballistic missile. In general, properties have to be at least 50 years old to become National Historic Landmarks. While the study identifies properties researchers believe could be eligible for landmark designation because they are "nationally significant" to Cold War history, a more thorough analysis is needed for each site to know whether they indeed meet eligibility criteria, the Park Service said in the news release.
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