HERE IS WHERE is an all-volunteer initiative created by the Legacy Project to find and spotlight little known and unmarked historic sites throughout the United States.

These sites relate to events that changed the course of history and represent a wide range of individuals–from explorers, pioneers, inventors, scientists, activists, and people of faith, to artists, writers, musicians, builders, and athletes.

HERE IS WHERE is a grass roots campaign, and the Legacy Project encourages Americans across the country to seek out and recommend their own favorite spots. The larger mission of this effort is to promote the importance of preserving historic sites and to foster a passion for history itself.

What

Who

Since 1998 the Legacy Project has been collecting and archiving wartime correspondence as a way of honoring and remembering this nation’s veterans, active duty troops, and their families. We believe that their sacrifices, humanity, and experiences are best recorded in their own words—the personal letters and e-mails they have written in times of war.

The Legacy Project will continue to save wartime correspondence, and, although HERE IS WHERE does not focus solely on war or military-related historical sites, its mission is similar in spirit; both initiatives were created to bring attention to extraordinary yet overlooked individuals and stories in American history.

Where

Everywhere. Forgotten history sites are located across the United States near, in, and around old buildings, public parks, vacant lots, hotels, places of worship, taverns, tunnels, cemeteries, restaurants, hospitals, prisons, courthouses, farms, and countless other places we walk and drive by every day.

Some sites are easy to find, and others are hidden from view. But the vast majority are right in front of us, waiting to be discovered.

How

HERE IS WHERE is privately funded and does not solicit or accept financial donations. If you would like to participate in this initiative, please e-mail us with information about a little known history site you believe deserves recognition.

HereIsWhereUSA@yahoo.com.

Please note that due to the high volume of e-mails the Legacy Project receives, it is often difficult for us to reply promptly. But we are grateful to those who take the time to write and will make every effort to respond as quickly as possible.

WHY

HERE IS WHERE is not just about preserving the past. In identifying and protecting historic sites, this initiative aspires to rally Americans from all walks of life to explore this country as if for the first time and actively seek out what has been forgotten, lost, overlooked, or neglected. HERE IS WHERE is about mobilizing a community of fellow travelers in search of incredible stories that are literally all around us.

These stories have the power to teach and inspire, they offer insights into the human condition, and the simple act of discovering them can transform how we see our streets, neighborhoods, towns, and the world itself.

HERE IS WHERE is only just beginning. As this initiative grows, so will this website.

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2660 Woodley Rd., NW, Washington, D.C.

Wardman Park Hotel (now managed by Marriott)

Here is where a young busboy poet named Langston Hughes was discovered on November 27, 1925, by the distinguished writer Vachel Lindsay. This site is the first to receive a historic marker placed by the Legacy Project.

5th Avenue & 76th St., New York, NY

Here is where 57-year-old Winston Churchill was hit by a car and nearly killed on the night of December 13, 1931. Churchill was rushed to Lenox Hill Hospital, where he spent the next few weeks recuperating.

1755 St. Charles St., New Orleans, LA

Parking lot of Houston’s restaurant

Here is where the last remnants of Andrew Higgins’s factory can be found. Higgins Industries produced the amphibious landing crafts (LCVPs) used for the June 6, 1944, D-Day invasion. General Dwight Eisenhower considered the boats so crucial to victory that he once credited Higgins as being “the man who won the war for us.”

1401 Wilson Blvd., Rosslyn, VA

Here is where Washington Post metro reporter Bob Woodward met with “Deep Throat” while investigating what became known as the Watergate scandal. In May 2005, former FBI deputy director W. Mark Felt admitted to being Woodward’s secret informant.

Franklin Fields, Encino, CA

Here is where Francis Gary Powers and KNBC cameraman George Spears died on August 1, 1977, when their helicopter crashed after running out of fuel. (A faulty gauge was responsible for the accident.) Ironically, Powers had survived the crash landing of his U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union in May 1960.

Grant & East Baltimore St., Baltimore, MD

Here is where Mary Katherine Goddard had her printing shop in the late 1700s.  Goddard’s version of the Declaration of Independence was the first to feature the names of all the signatories, and she courageously printed the document well aware that the British could severely punish her for treason.

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