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__ St. Louis Cathedral is in New Orleans. It is the oldest Church in Louisiana. The original church burned down in the Great Fire of 1783. The church stands in Jackson Square in the center of the French Quarter. Eight New Orleans bishops are buried there. __

__ The Golden Gate Bridge is in San Francisco. It was built in 1937 and cost $27 million. It is a suspension bridge. It crosses the San Francisco Bay. There is a $5 toll to cross the bridge. It is called the Golden Gate Bridgebecause when the sun shines on the bridge, it looks like it is made of gold. __

__ The Statue of Liberty is in New York City on an island called Liberty Island. It was a gift to the US from France. It was shipped to the United States in 214 boxes and presented on July 4, 1884. __

__ The Painted Desert is in Colorado. It is called the Painted Desert because there are layers of red and yellow clay all throughout the desert which give it a colorful look. __

__ Niagara Falls is partly in New York and partly in Canada. There are three sections called the American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls, and the Horseshoe Falls in Canada. The water that comes over the falls comes from four of the five Great Lakes. __

__ Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. It has the faces of four American presidents carved into the side of a mountain. The presidents are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt __

__ Kitty Hawk is in North Carolina. It is the place where two brothers, Orville and Wilbur Wright, flew the very first airplane over 100 years ago in 1903. The first flight was only 12 seconds long. __

__ The U.S. Capitol Building is in Washington, D.C. It was built in 1824 at the cost of $1 million. It has a beautiful dome on top of it. This is the place where the laws of the United States are made. __

__ The White House is in Washington, D.C. It is where the President and his family live. The White House wasn’t always white. It was painted in 1812 after the British burned it to cover the burn marks. __

__ The Cabildo is in New Orleans. It is in Jackson Square, next to the Cathedral. This building is now a museum, but it was once the place where laws were made for the Louisiana Territory. __

__ Plymouth Rock is where the Pilgrims landed in 1620. It is in Massachusetts. It was the first permanent city in New England. The Mayflower II, a copy of the original ship, is near this rock today. __

__ The Brooklyn Bridge is in Brooklyn, New York. It crosses the East River. Before the bridge was built, people had to use boats to cross the river. At least 20 people died while building the bridge. It opened in 1883. __

__ The Lincoln Memorial is in Washington, D.C. It is in honor of our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, who was shot and killed in a theater right after the Civil War. A picture of the Lincoln Memorial is on the penny. Martin Luther King gave a famous speech there. __

__ The Washington Monument is in Washington, D.C. It is in honor of our first president, George Washington. It is the tallest of all the monuments in Washington. This is a symbol of Washington’s greatness. There are 897 steps to get to the top of the monument. __

__ The Liberty Bell is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has a big crack in it – ½ inch wide and 24 ½ inches long. It was not properly made, and it cracked the first time it was rung. It was fixed, but soon cracked again. There are rivets in the bell to keep it from breaking more. __

__ Monument Valley is in Utah. It is a large, flat, very dry area of land with amazing stones that seem to rise out of the desert. Many pictures have been taken of this area, and many Western Movies have been filmed there. __

__ The Great Salt Lake is in Utah. It is so salty that no fish can live in it. Only one animal lives in it – the brine shrimp. It is so salty that people who swim in it come out with salt all over their bodies. __

__ Jackson Square is in New Orleans. It is between the Mississippi River and the St. Louis Cathedral. There is a statue of Andrew Jackson in the center of the square. He is the hero of the Battle of New Orleans. __

__ St. Patrick Cathedral is in New York City. It is the most beautiful church in the city. It was named after St. Patrick because at the time it was built, one-fourth of the people of New York were from Ireland. __

__ The Empire State Building is in New York City. At one time, it was the tallest building in the world. It has 102 stories and was finished in 1931. There are 1,860 steps to the top of the building, but you can take an elevator and look off of the top. __

__ The Chrysler Building is in New York City. It is 77 stories high. For one year it was the tallest building in the world – until the Empire State Building was built. __

__ The Sears Tower is in Chicago. It was built in 1973 and was the tallest building in the world until 1996. Chicago is on Lake Michigan. __

__ The Cable Cars of San Francisco are the only moving historic landmark. They travel nine miles per hour. About 10 million people ride on them every day. Trolleys used to be pulled by horses, but there are so many hills that the horses and trolleys would slide down. Cable cars were invented to prevent the trolleys from sliding down the hills. __

__ St. Augustine is the name of a famous city in Florida. It is the oldest European city in America. There is a fort in St. Augustine that is 500 years old. An explorer named Ponce de Leon thought he had found the “Fountain of Youth” there. __

__ The St. Louis Gateway Arch is located in St. Louis, Missouri. It was built to remember that Louis and Clark began their famous trip from there in 1803. Their trip was the beginning of the settlement of the western part of the United States. __

__ Seattle Space Needle is in Seattle, Washington. It was built in 1962 for the World’s Fair in Seattle. The top of it looks like a flying saucer. It was made to look like that because it was supposed to represent the future. __

__Independence Hall is in Philadelphia. In 1776, Americans met there to write the Declaration of Independence. George Washington became the General of the Army here. Also, the U. S. Constitution was written here in 1787.__

Fort McHenry is in Baltimore, Maryland. The Americans fought against the British here during the War of 1812. The Americans won the battle. The Star Spangled Banner was written during this battle.