This is a list of properties and historic districts in Missouri on the National Register of Historic Places. There are NRHP listings in all of Missouri's 114 counties and the one independent city of St. Louis.
Washington State Park is a public recreation area covering 2,147 acres (869 ha) in the central eastern part of the state of Missouri located on Highway 21 about 14 miles (23 km) northeast of Potosi on the eastern edge of the Ozarks. The state park is noted for its Native American rock carvings and for its finely crafted stonework from the 1930s.
Millstone Bluff is a natural bluff in Pope County, Illinois, United States, located near the community of Glendale. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological significance, Millstone Bluff is one of three National Register sites in Pope County, along with the Golconda Historic District and part of the Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site.
Graham Cave is a Native American archeological site near Mineola, Missouri in Montgomery County in the hills above the Loutre River. It is located in the 356 acre Graham Cave State Park. The entrance of the sandstone cave forms a broad arch 120 feet (37 m) wide and 16 feet (5 m) high. Extending about 100 feet (30 m) into the hillside, the cave protects an historically important Pre-Columbian archaeological site from the ancient Dalton and Archaic period dating back to as early as 10,000 years ago.
Towosahgy State Historic Site (23MI2), also known as "Beckwith's Fort," is a large Mississippian earthwork mound site with a Woodland period Baytown culture component located in Mississippi County, Missouri. It is believed to have been inhabited from c. 400-1350. The site is maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources as a state historic site. The name Towosahgy is an Osage word which means "old town." It is not known if members of the historic Osage, who dominated a large area of present-day Missouri at the beginning of encounter with European colonizers, occupied the site. The site includes the Beckwith's Fort Archeological Site, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.
The Murphy Mound Archeological Site, is a prehistoric archaeological site in the Bootheel region of the U.S. state of Missouri. Located southwest of Caruthersville in Pemiscot County, Missouri the site was occupied by peoples of the Late Mississippian period, centuries before European colonization of the area.
The Petroglyph Point is an archaeological site within the Lava Beds National Monument, located southeast of Tulelake, California. Petroglyph Point contains one of the largest panels of Native American rock art in the United States. The petroglyphs are carved along the face of a former island of ancient Tule Lake, in a region historically of the Modoc people territory. The Petroglyph Point Archeological Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, while the Lava Beds National Monument Archeological District was listed in March 1991.
The Chalfant Petroglyph Site, also known as CA-MNO-7, is a 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) archeological site in the Chalfant Valley volcanic tablelands, above Bishop in Mono County, eastern California.
The East Walker River Petroglyph Site, near Yerington, Nevada, United States, is a 90-acre (36 ha) archeological site that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
Grimes Point, in Churchill County, Nevada near Fallon, is a 720-acre (290 ha) archeological site that was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It was listed for its potential to yield future information.
The Piute Pass Archeological District is an archaeological district located along Piute Creek in eastern San Bernardino County, California. The district encompasses the area around the historic Fort Piute and includes a variety of prehistoric and historic resources. The Piute Pass area was inhabited by several Native American tribes dating back to the middle Holocene epoch. The Patayan people lived in the area during the late prehistoric period, while the Chemehuevi people lived there after the Patayan and through the early historic period. Both groups left petroglyphs in the area, and remains of Chemehuevi habitation sites have also been discovered. After European settlers came to the region, the pass became the site of Fort Piute, a U.S. Army redoubt which protected travelers along the Mojave Road.
The Glenwood Archeological District is a nationally recognized historic district and archaeological sites located in the vicinity of Glenwood, Iowa, United States. It is one of nine sites from the Nebraska Phase of the Woodland period recognized by archaeologists, and the only one located east of the Missouri River. The district is made up of earth lodge sites, mortuary sites and artifact scatters from the Glenwood culture. They date from sometime between 1250 and 1400 C.E.. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
Tavern Cave, also known as the Taverne-A Cave, is a historic archaeological site located near St. Albans, Franklin County, Missouri. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark visited Tavern Cave on May 23, 1804 at the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The cave includes a petroglyph of either a canoe or a historic flat boat and several 19th century era inscriptions.
Fertile is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Missouri.
Hoecake Village Archeological Site (23MI8) is a historic archeological site located near East Prairie, Mississippi County, Missouri. This site was investigated by archaeologists from the University of Missouri during 1963 and 1967. Almost all of the mounds were leveled before the 1960s. The site includes two surviving burial mounds, which were excavated in 1988. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Holliday Petroglyphs (23MN1) is a historic archeological site located near Holliday, Monroe County, Missouri. This site consists of a group of petroglyph panels identified in 1944. Stone tools and pottery sherds were found near the rock art.
Mitchell Petroglyph Archeological Site, also known as the Missouri Archeological Survey Number 23RN1 , is a historic archaeological site located near Cairo, Randolph County, Missouri. The site was documented during 1944, and includes petroglyphs identified as a full-tailed thunderbird, a large human-like figure and several thunderbirds, male and female sexual motifs, and shaman or human-like spirit.
Fisher-Gabbert Archeological Site, also known as Missouri Archaeological Survey Number 23SA128, is a historic archaeological site located near Miami, Saline County, Missouri. It was partially excavated in 1970. Excavated from the site were pottery and stone tools that belong to the "Hopewell tradition."
Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site is a Wyoming state park that interprets the Medicine Lodge Creek Site, a prehistoric Native American archeological site near Hyattville, Wyoming. It is administered by the Wyoming Division of State Parks and Historic Sites. The site is at the base of a steep limestone outcropping near the point where the dry and running portions of Medicine Lodge Creek join. for a protected location with ready access to water. The site includes petroglyphs and pictographs on the rock face. Excavations starting in the 1970s have found twelve levels of habitation in 10.5 feet of stratum, ranging from historic times to 8300 years before the present. The site comprises a portion of the former Wickwire Ranch, which was purchased by the state in 1972 and became to Medicine Lodge Wildlife Habitat Management Area of 12,000 acres (4,900 ha). The archeological site was designated in 1973. The site is managed as a state park, with campgrounds and a visitor center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 5, 1973.
