Category: American Countryside
The Birthplace of Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln led the country through the Civil War, but it was this man who defeated him for the Senate two years earlier. We’ll go…
Keep Your Clothes On! Inside Gadsby’s Tavern
Imagine staying in a hotel that encouraged you to sleep with your clothes and shoes on so that you could make a quick escape in case…
A Tavern With a Rich History
Many of the homes and businesses in Alexandria, Virginia can trace their history to the founding of the nation. That’s true of one very important tavern. It…
El Cuartelejo
Near Kansas’ border with Colorado you can find a place called El Cuartelejo. It’s the ruins of an ancient home who’s occupants were on the run from…
Pueblo Dwellings in Kansas
In western Kansas you can find the foundations for an old Native American settlement. Perhaps that doesn’t seem too out of the ordinary, until you dig a…
A Natural Wonder of Kansas
It’s one of the natural wonders of Kansas. A place of white spires rising from the prairie plains that have been a landmark for centuries…
Cyrus McCormick and His Threshing Machine
For centuries, crops were cut and threshed by hand. That all changed with a young farmer in Virginia. This is the story of a birthday…
Building a Utopian Society
In 1825, Robert Own of Wales, purchased an entire town in the state of Indiana. His dream was to create a utopian society where morals were upheld…
A Place Called Harmony
Harmony. It might be defined as finding peace with one’s self and one another. That’s what the people who established the town of Harmony were looking…
A Long-Established Community
There are many reasons people came from Europe to the newly founded United States. Some came to find freedom to practice their religion. That was the…