ADAMS NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE. This historic site is a memorial to four generations of one family that played a foremost part in shaping the destiny of America. In this house lived Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams; Charles Francis Adams, Minister to Great Britain during the American Civil War; and the celebrated writers and historians Henry Adams and Brooks Adams. The historic site was donated to the Federal Government by the Adams Memorial Society, organized in 1927 by all living descendants of Charles Francis Adams to preserve and maintain it as a memorial open to the public, just as Brooks Adams had left it. To the left of the Adams house is shown the stone library which Charles Francis Adams built and which overlooks his grandmother's garden.

HAMPTON NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE. Hampton, one of the finest Georgian mansions in America, representing the height of opulence in the period just after the Revolution, was purchased and donated to the United Stares by the Avalon Foundation, a charitable trust founded by Mrs. Ailsa M. Bruce, daughter of the late Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. Included in the gift was 40 acres of surrounding ground and funds for necessary repairs. The mansion has survived intact, unlike many historic buildings in this country. Under a cooperative agreement the historic site is exhibited for the National Park Service by the Society for the Preservation of Maryland Antiquities. (Photograph by Abbie Rowe.)