National Register of Historic Places listings in American Samoa facts for kids

American Samoa districts (clickable)

This is a list of the buildings, sites, districts, and objects listed on the National Register of Historic Places in American Samoa. There are currently 31 listed sites spread across the three districts of American Samoa. There are no sites listed on the unorganized atoll of Swains Island.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted March 31, 2017.

Numbers of listings

The following are approximate tallies of current listings in American Samoa on the National Register of Historic Places. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are not official. Also, the counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number.

	District	# of Sites
1	Eastern	15
2	Manu'a	2
3	Rose Atoll	1
4	Swains Island	0
5	Western	13
Total:		31

Eastern

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	Village	Description
1	Blunts Point Naval Guns		April 26, 1973 (#73002128)	Matautu Ridge 14°17′08″S 170°40′36″W	Pago Pago
2	Breakers Point Naval Guns		October 18, 1999 (#99001231)	Breakers Point 14°17′11″S 170°39′30″W	Lauli'i
3	Courthouse of American Samoa		February 12, 1974 (#74002180)	Near Pago Pago Harbor 14°16′41″S 170°41′26″W	Fagatogo
4	Government House		March 16, 1972 (#72001443)	Togotogo Ridge 14°16′38″S 170°40′59″W	Pago Pago
5	Michael J. Kirwan Educational Television Center		October 23, 2009 (#09000842)	American Samoa Highway 118, north side of Utulei 14°16′41″S 170°40′59″W	Utulei
6	Lau'agae Ridge Quarry		March 30, 2000 (#99001227)	Address restricted	Tula
7	Governor H. Rex Lee Auditorium		November 12, 2010 (#10000888)	American Samoa Highway 001, William McKinley Memorial Highway 14°16′44″S 170°40′59″W	Utulei
8	Masefau Defensive Fortifications		November 14, 2012 (#12000919)	Masefau Beach 14°15′26″S 170°37′48″W	Masefau
9	Navy Building 38		March 16, 1972 (#72001441)	Pago Pago Harbor 14°16′41″S 170°41′19″W	Fagatogo
10	Navy Building 43		March 16, 1972 (#72001442)	Pago Pago Harbor 14°16′40″S 170°41′16″W	Fagatogo	Now the Jean P. Haydon Museum
11	Old Vatia		November 2, 2006 (#06000956)	Above Vatia southwest of American Samoa Highway 015 14°15′13″S 170°41′08″W	Vatia
12	Satala Cemetery		October 19, 2006 (#05001110)	American Samoa Highway 001, west of Satala 14°16′14″S 170°41′42″W	Lalopua
13	Sadie Thompson Building		July 2, 2003 (#03000582)	Along main road 14°16′35″S 170°41′35″W	Fagatogo
14	Tulauta Village		June 2, 1997 (#87001980)	Address restricted	Tula
15	U.S. Naval Station Tutuila Historic District		June 20, 1990 (#90000854)	South and west sides of Pago Pago Harbor 14°16′44″S 170°41′09″W	Fagatogo and Utulei

Manu'a

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	Village	Description
1	Faga Village Site		November 23, 2003 (#99001228)	Address restricted	Fitiuta
2	Tui Manu'a Graves Monument		November 19, 2015 (#15000812)	Northwest of the junction of Ta'u Village and Ta'u Island Roads 14°13′41″S 169°30′58″W	Ta'u

Rose Atoll

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	Village	Description
1	Rose Island Concrete Monument		December 18, 2013 (#13000920)	Approximately 160 feet (49 m) east of atoll lagoon 14°32′50″S 168°08′43″W	Rose Atoll	Concrete marker placed in 1920 during visit to atoll by Governor Terhune.

Western

	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed	Location	Village	Description
1	A'a Village (AS‑34‑33)		November 19, 1987 (#87001956)	Address restricted	Tapua'ina
2	Aasu		April 13, 1972 (#72001444)	Adjacent to Massacre Bay 14°17′33″S 170°45′37″W	Aasu	An armed confrontation between Samoans and French explorers from Lapérouse's expedition on this site in 1787 led to the deaths of 12 Frenchmen. News of the incident gave Samoans a reputation for ferocity among Europeans and deterred foreign intervention in Samoa for about a century. The French government placed a memorial at the site in 1883.
3	Afao Beach Site		November 14, 2012 (#12000916)	Afao Beach 14°19′56″S 170°48′01″W	Afao
4	Atauloma Girls School		March 16, 1972 (#72001445)	West edge of Afao 14°19′48″S 170°48′06″W	Afao	The London Missionary Society opened this parochial school in 1900 as the second secondary school on Tutuila, and the first to admit girls. It prepared girls primarily to be pastors' wives, and after 1913 provided graduates to the nursing school at the naval station at Pago Pago.
5	Fagalele Boys School		March 16, 1972 (#72001446)	South of Leone 14°20′31″S 170°47′10″W	Leone	This 19th-century residential parochial school was built by the London Missionary Society for the primary purpose of educating future pastors, possibly as early as 1850. It was the first secondary school in what is now American Samoa, and it may be the oldest surviving building on Tutuila.
6	Fagatele Bay Site		June 2, 1997 (#87001958)	Address restricted	Futiga
7	Malaeola Olo		January 5, 2016 (#15000949)	Address restricted	Malaeola Itu'au
8	Maloata Village		June 12, 1997 (#87001955)	Address restricted	Tapua'ina
9	Poloa Defensive Fortifications		November 14, 2012 (#12000917)	Poloa Beach 14°18′59″S 170°50′03″W	Poloa	Consisting of three pillboxes along the beach, these fortifications were built by American Marines as part of a system of defenses against a feared Japanese amphibious invasion of Samoa during the early part of World War II.
10	Site AS‑31‑72		June 2, 1997 (#97000431)	Address restricted	Faleniu
11	Tataga-Matau Fortified Quarry Complex (AS‑34‑10)		November 19, 1987 (#87001957)	Address restricted	Leone
12	Tupapa Site		October 30, 2009 (#09000852)	Address restricted	A'asufou
13	Turtle and Shark		November 19, 2014 (#14000925)	2506 Turtle and Shark Road 14°21′26″S 170°44′08″W	Vaitogi	Site associated with an important event recounted in Samoan oral history.