National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places from the National Park Service. Contains approximately 80,000 placemarks showing locations of registered historic places in the US and US Territories. This collection is not intended to be current or complete. You must go to the National Park Service website if current or official information is required.
The placemarks do have some geocoding errors, which are carried over from the original data set and I will not be correcting them. Also, this collection does not include historic places that are defined by an area because that dataset has too many errors to be of any use. These are big files and might take a minute or so for the initial loading .
Update 3/11 - The National Park Service has created their own version of this data for Google Earth. (thanks to Lee Wright of Read Write History for pointing this out to me). From a quick comparison, it looks very similar to the one I created, but has some differences and might be easier to use and more complete set of data. You can access their data from below also. I did take some liberties with their KML code to improve the user interface.
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This is a great collection!
I did notice that a placemark labeled US Post Office — Glendale Main is out in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico.
There is also a cluster of six placemarks in the ocean west of Los Angeles.
CK