Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation

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JASHP - A partial list of completed programs and projects:

• Alabama – Mobile, Shaare Shomayim - Gates of Heaven, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Alabama - 1841 ^[3]

Tuskegee Civil Rights and Historic Trail Marker System- 13 markers.^[4]

• Tuskegee Civil Rights and Historic Trail Marker System

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• Arkansas – Little Rock

1. Concordia Hall ^[6]
2. Broncho Billy Anderson, The First Cowboy Western Movie Star ^[7]

• California Sutro Heights ^[8]
• Colorado – Cotopaxi, Russian Jewish Cemetery - 1882–1884 ^[9]
• Congressional Medal of Honor Private Benjamin Levy,

1. First Jewish American to earn the MOH -1862 ^[10]

• Connecticut – Groton, Jews and the American Navy ^[11]
• Delaware – Wilmington, Ohabe Shalom, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Delaware - 1880 ^[12]
• Florida, Pensacola, Temple Beth El, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Florida, 1876 ^[13]
• Florida, Palm Beach

1. Wakodahatchee Wetlands ^[14]
2. Green Cay Wetlands ^[15]

• Iowa – Keokuk, B'Nai Israel Congregation, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Iowa - 1855 ^[16]
• Kansas – Kansas City, Jewish American and World War I ^[17]
• Kansas – Leavenworth, Temple B'Nai Jeshurun, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Kansas - 1866 ^[18]
• Louisiana – New Orleans

1. Shangarai Chasset, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Louisiana - 1845 ^[19]
2. Touro Infirmary ^[20]

• Maine – Bangor, Congregation Beth Israel, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship - 1897 ^[21]

• Maryland – Montgomery County, Sophia Chamys, victim of white slavery ^[22]
• Maryland – Hagerstown, Thomas Kennedy, Jew Bill of Maryland ^[23]
• Minnesota – Saint Paul, Mt. Zion Temple, first permanent Jewish House of Worship in Minnesota - 1856 ^[24]
• Mississippi – Jackson, Temple Beth Israel, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Mississippi - 1867 ^[25]
• Mississippi – Natchez, Temple B'Nai Israel, first organized Jewish house of worship in Mississippi ^[26]
• Montana – Helena, Temple Emanuel, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Montana - 1890 ^[27]

• Nebraska – Omaha, Congregation of Israel, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Nebraska - 1884 ^[28]
• Nevada – Virginia City

1. Engineering Marvels of the Comstock ^[29]
2. Virginia City Jewish Cemetery - 1862 ^[30]

• New Hampshire – Portsmouth, Temple Israel, First Permanent House of Worship - 1910 ^[31]

• New Jersey – Roosevelt, Jersey Homesteads ^[32]
• New Mexico – Las Vegas, Congregation Montefiore, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in New Mexico - 1884 ^[33]
• New York – Buffalo, Mordechai Noah and Ararat ^[34]

  Borscht Belt Historical Marker system - 20 markers[35]

• North Dakota – Valley City,#Herman Stern, Holocaust rescuer ^[36]
• North Dakota – Ashley Jewish Cemetery, NRHP ^[37]
• North Dakota – Bonanazaville, North Dakota Jewry ^[38]
• Oklahoma – Oklahoma City, Temple B'Nai Israel, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Oklahoma - 1908 ^[39]
• Pennsylvania – Lancaster, Joseph Simon, Jewish American frontiersman ^[40]
• South Dakota

1. Jews of Deadwood ^[41]

1. Mount Rushmore National Monument ^[42]
2. Mount Rushmore National Monument, "Father of Mt. Rushmore" ^[43][44]
3. Congregation Sons of Israel, Sioux Falls, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in South Dakota - 1916 ^[45]

• Tennessee – 1. Memphis, Congregation Children of Israel, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Tennessee - 1854.^[46] 2. Knoxville, Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds, Righteous Among the Nations for saving Jewish POWs, WWII - https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=160252

• Utah, Clarion

1. Jewish Agricultural Settlement - 1911 ^[47]

• Utah – Salt Lake City

1. Congregation B'Nai Israel, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Utah - 1883 ^[48]

• Utah – Wild Horse Butte

1. Solomon Carvalho - John C. Fremont Expedition of exploration 1853–54 ^[49]

• Virginia – Richmond, Kahal Kadosh Beth Shalome, First Permanent Jewish House of Worship in Virginia - 1789 ^[50]
• Washington – Spokane, Temple Emanuel, First Permanent Jewish House of worship in Washington State - 1892 ^[51]
• West Virginia – Charleston, Temple Israel, first permanent Jewish house of worship in West Virginia - 1873 ^[52]
• Wyoming – Cheyenne, Mt. Sinai Congregation, first permanent Jewish house of worship in Wyoming - 1915 ^[53]
• British International Projects

• Leo Frank, Marietta, Georgia

1. Leo Frank Lynching ^[54]

• Stephen Norman, Jerusalem, Israel

1. The last descendant of Theodor Herzl - the father of the modern State of Israel ^[55]

• Four Chaplains, Memorial - U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland

1. U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland ^[56]

• Daffodils and American Holocaust Memorials

1. ^[57]

• Paramaribo, Suriname

1. Holocaust and Memory ^[58]

• John Henry Patterson, Avihayil, Israel

1. Godfather of the Israel Defense Forces ^[59][60][61]

• Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Weimar, Germany

1. The "Kleine Lager" Memorial ^[62]

American Liberators marker - In Memory of the Soldiers of the XX Corps of the U.S. 3rd Army. ^[63]

• Adam Worth, London, England

1. The Napoleon of Crime ^[64]

• Rev. William Hechler - First Christian Zionist, London, England^[65]
• Joan Winters, Jerusalem, Israel^[66]
• Paramaribo, Suriname, Holocaust and Memory^[58][67]

• SS Exodus, Haifa, Israel

1. Exodus - 1947, the iconic American Holocaust rescue ship ^[68]
2. Bill Bernstein - American second officer on the Exodus murdered during the British attack ^[69]

• Hero Miles - Fisher House Foundation^[70]

• Kahal HaKadosh Beit Elohim, Charleston, S.C.^[71]
• American Holocaust Memorializations^[72]
• Reverend John Stanley Grauel - Secret Haganah operative on the S.S. Exodus^[73]
• American Jewish History,^[74]
• Zionism and Israel^[75]