U.S. World Heritage Tentative List 2008

U.S. WORLD HERITAGE TENTATIVE LIST 2008 Cultural Properties (9): Civil Rights Movement Sites, Alabama Dayton Aviation Sites, Ohio Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks, Ohio Thomas Jefferson Buildings: Poplar Forest and Virginia State Capitol Mount Vernon, Virginia Poverty Point State Historic Site, Louisiana San Antonio Franciscan Missions, Texas Serpent Mound, Ohio Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings, Arizona, California, Illinois, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin

Mixed Property (1): Paphanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, Hawaii

Natural Properties (4): Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, American Samoa Okefenokee Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Georgia Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona White Sands National Monument, New Mexico

The Tentative List of the 14 sites listed above was transmitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Center on January 24, 2008. No more than 2 of these sites can be nominated each year.

PROPERTIES TO BE CONSIDERED FOR POSSIBLE FUTURE INCLUSION IN THE TENTATIVE LIST Cultural Properties: Colonial Newport, Rhode Island Eastern State Penitentiary, Pennsylvania French Creole Properties of the Mid-Mississippi Valley, Illinois-Missouri Gamble House, California Moravian Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Moundville Site, Alabama Olana (Home of Frederic Church), New York Pipestone National Monument, Minnesota Shaker Villages, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, and New York Underground Railroad Sites (John Rankin and John Parker Houses), Ohio

Natural Property: Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Massachusetts

These properties have been judged to possess varying degrees of potential to meet the World Heritage criteria. Additional work in a range of areas is needed before they can receive further consideration for inclusion in the Tentative List.