National Register of Historic Places listings in American Samoa

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 February 5, 2021.[1]
American Samoa districts (clickable)

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[2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site.[3] 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
[4] Name on the Register Image Date listed[5] Location Village Description
1 Blunts Point Naval Guns
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
Courthouse of American Samoa
 February 12, 1974
(#74002180)		 Near Pago Pago Harbor
14°16′41″S 170°41′26″W		 Fagatogo
4 Government House
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
Lau'agae Ridge Quarry
 March 30, 2000
(#99001227)		 Address restricted[6]
 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
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
Sadie Thompson Building
 July 2, 2003
(#03000582)		 Along main road
14°16′35″S 170°41′35″W		 Fagatogo
14 Tulauta Village
Tulauta Village
 June 2, 1997
(#87001980)		 Address restricted[6]
 Tula
15 U.S. Naval Station Tutuila Historic District
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
[4] Name on the Register Image Date listed[5] Location Village Description
1 Faga Village Site
Faga Village Site
 November 23, 2003
(#99001228)		 Address restricted[6]
 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
[4] Name on the Register Image Date listed[5] Location Village Description
1 Rose Island Concrete Monument
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
[4] Name on the Register Image Date listed[5] Location Village Description
1 A'a Village (AS‑34‑33)
A'a Village (AS‑34‑33)
 November 19, 1987
(#87001956)		 Address restricted[6]
 Tapua'ina
2 Aasu
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.[7]
3 Afao Beach Site November 14, 2012
(#12000916)		 Afao Beach
14°19′56″S 170°48′01″W		 Afao
4 Atauloma Girls School
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.[8]
5 Fagalele Boys School
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.[9]
6 Fagatele Bay Site
Fagatele Bay Site
 June 2, 1997
(#87001958)		 Address restricted[6]
 Futiga
7 Malaeola Olo
Malaeola Olo
 January 5, 2016
(#15000949)		 Address restricted[6]
 Malaeola Itu'au
8 Maloata Village
Maloata Village
 June 12, 1997
(#87001955)		 Address restricted[6]
 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]
10 Site AS‑31‑72
Site AS‑31‑72
 June 2, 1997
(#97000431)		 Address restricted[6]
 Faleniu
11 Tataga-Matau Fortified Quarry Complex (AS‑34‑10)
Tataga-Matau Fortified Quarry Complex (AS‑34‑10)
 November 19, 1987
(#87001957)		 Address restricted[6]
 Leone
12 Tupapa Site
Tupapa Site
 October 30, 2009
(#09000852)		 Address restricted[6]
 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.

See also

References
  1. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on February 5, 2021.
  2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 24, 2008.
  3. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service. Retrieved January 16, 2009.
  4. Numbers represent an alphabetical ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
  5. The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
  6. Federal and state laws and practices restrict general public access to information regarding the specific location of this resource. In some cases, this is to protect archeological sites from vandalism, while in other cases it is restricted at the request of the owner. See: Knoerl, John; Miller, Diane; Shrimpton, Rebecca H. (1990), Guidelines for Restricting Information about Historic and Prehistoric Resources, National Register Bulletin, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 20706997.
  7. Apple, Russell A. (May 25, 1971), National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Aasu (PDF), retrieved November 27, 2014.
  8. Apple, Russell A. (July 9, 1971), National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Atauloma Girls School (PDF), retrieved December 3, 2014.
  9. Apple, Russell A. (July 8, 1971), National Register of Historic Places Inventory – Nomination Form: Fagalele Boys School (PDF), retrieved September 1, 2014.
  10. Klenck, Joel D. (September 18, 2012), National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Poloa (PDF), retrieved August 30, 2014.
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