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Introduction

Selected Constitutional Decisions

Other Sites

Existing National Historic Landmarks



NOMINATIONS

First Bank of the United States

Pittsylvania County Courthouse

Second Bank of the United States

Sumner Elementary School

Supreme Court Building





The U.S. Constitution
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OTHER SITES CONSIDERED

All of these sites were previously considered for National Historic Landmark designation and were rejected by the National Park System Advisory Board. None of these sites are considered to be sufficiently significant to warrant nomination under this theme.

(130) Richard Bassett—Signer of the Constitution

Site:

438 State Street, Dover, Delaware.

(131) John Dickinson—Signer of the Constitution

Site:

Crosiadore, Talbot County, along Dickinson Bay, on a county road running west off U.S. 50, about 3 miles southwest of Trappe, Maryland. John Dickinson was born here in 1732. Dickinson' s home in Kent County, Delaware is an existing National Historic Landmark.

(132) Daniel St. Thomas Jenifer—Signer of the Constitution

Site:

Ellerslie, Charles County, on Howard Drive, which runs from Md. Route 6, Port Tobacco, Maryland.

(133) James Wilson—Signer of the Constitution and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1789-1798

Site:

James Iredell House, Chowan County, 107 E. Church Street, Edenton, North Carolina. Wilson died here in 1798.

(134) Charles Pickney—Signer of the Constitution

Site:

7 Orange Street, Charleston, South Carolina—This house was Pickney's boyhood home from 1770-78. After the death of his father, Pickney inherited Snee Farm in Charleston County, South Carolina, and lived there from 1782 until his death in 1824. Snee Farm is an existing National Historic Landmark.

(135) William Blount—Signer of the Constitution

Sites:

(a) Rosefield, Bertie County, 212 Gray Street, Windsor, North Carolina. (Birthplace.)

(b) Rocky Mount, Sullivan County, just off U.S. 11 E, about 7 miles northeast of Johnson City, Tennessee— Blount occupied this house for 18 months starting in 1790.

(c) Blount (William) Mansion, 200 W. Hill Avenue, Knoxville, Tennessee—Blount occupied this house from 1792 until his death in 1800. (Existing National Historic Landmark)

(136) John Blair—Signer of the Constitution and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court 1789-1796

Site:

John Blair House, Duke of Gloucester Street, Williamsburg, Virginia.

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