National Register of Historic Places listings in Pennsylvania facts for kids

Pennsylvania counties (clickable map)

This is a list of special places and buildings in Pennsylvania that are important to history. They are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. As of 2015, there are over 3,000 of these historic sites in Pennsylvania. Every one of the 67 counties in Pennsylvania has at least one place listed on the National Register.

Historic Places by County

This section shows how many historic places are listed in each county in Pennsylvania. These numbers are from April 24, 2008, and include new places added since then. The numbers might change as more places are added or removed from the list. About 16% of these historic places in Pennsylvania are in Philadelphia. Also, almost 40% are found in the Delaware Valley area.

Gettysburg National Military Park, Adams County Butler County Courthouse, Butler County S. B. Elliott State Park Family Cabin District, Clearfield County Presque Isle Lighthouse, Erie County W. W. Griest Building, Lancaster Cogan House Covered Bridge, Lycoming County Joseph Priestley House, Northumberland County Grey Towers National Historic Site, Pike County Drake Oil Well, Venango County

21 County Number of Sites 1 Adams 35 Allegheny: Pittsburgh 182 Allegheny: Other 77 Allegheny: Duplicates (4) 2 Allegheny: Total 255 3 Armstrong 14 4 Beaver 22 5 Bedford 32 6 Berks 140 7 Blair 29 8 Bradford 13 9 Bucks 163 10 Butler 13 11 Cambria 31 12 Cameron 1 13 Carbon 14 14 Centre 64 Chester: Eastern 113 Chester: Northern 89 Chester: Southern 123 Chester: Duplicates (1) 15 Chester: Total 323 16 Clarion 6 17 Clearfield 20 18 Clinton 10 19 Columbia 31 20 Crawford 20 Cumberland 36 22 Dauphin 74 23 Delaware 97 24 Elk 12 25 Erie 50 26 Fayette 68 27 Forest 4 28 Franklin 64 29 Fulton 8 30 Greene 44 31 Huntingdon 42 32 Indiana 24 33 Jefferson 15 34 Juniata 7 35 Lackawanna 36 Lancaster: Lancaster City 57 Lancaster: Other Areas 153 Lancaster: Duplicates (1) 36 Lancaster: Total 209 37 Lawrence 10 38 Lebanon 31 39 Lehigh 57 40 Luzerne 37 41 Lycoming 21 42 McKean 10 43 Mercer 15 44 Mifflin 9 45 Monroe 22 46 Montgomery 159 47 Montour 7 48 Northampton 65 49 Northumberland 29 50 Perry 23 Philadelphia: Center City 147 Philadelphia: North 169 Philadelphia: Northeast 75 Philadelphia: Northwest 79 Philadelphia: South 61 Philadelphia: Southwest 12 Philadelphia: West 68 Philadelphia: Duplicates (5) 51 Philadelphia: Total 606 52 Pike 27 53 Potter 5 54 Schuylkill 20 55 Snyder 8 56 Somerset 32 57 Sullivan 7 58 Susquehanna 8 59 Tioga 10 60 Union 20 61 Venango 19 62 Warren 11 63 Washington 99 64 Wayne 17 65 Westmoreland 54 66 Wyoming 5 67 York 99 Duplicates: (47) Total: 3,522

Map of National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh Johnstown Inclined Plane, Cambria County Pennsylvania State Capitol Building, Dauphin County Bradford Armory, McKean County Cornwall Iron Furnace, Lebanon County Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia Colton Point State Park, Tioga County Fort Ligonier Site, Westmoreland County

More Historic Lists

Here are some other lists of historic places you might find interesting:

• European archaeological sites
• Native American archaeological sites
• Bridges (not including covered bridges)
  • Covered bridges
• National Historic Landmarks (not including Philadelphia)
  • National Historic Landmarks in Philadelphia
• Pennsylvania state historical markers