Tag: Historical

Fort Fisher photos from May 2010 Hermit Bunker & Grave photos from May 2011 This wound up being a 2 part trip.  My wife and… read more Fort Fisher and the Hermit’s Bunker

Photos from May 2011 Man, was this an adventure. When a game commissioner has to drive you back to your car, you know you had… read more Alvira

In August of 1963, three miners were stuck 330 feet below the ground when the Sheppton mine caved in.  Two of the miners stuck together… read more Sheppton Mine Disaster Site

Not content spending our mini-vacation just looking at water, we found some other things to see on the way up to Niagara Falls.  I saw… read more Lockport Cave

In 1948, Colonel Mahlon M. Haines, the owner of several shoe stores in PA & MD, decided to implement what is likely the ultimate advertising… read more The Shoe House

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site consists of a restored town from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as ruins of a blast furnace.  Iron… read more Hopewell Furnace

Remember that long list of explorers you had to learn in school and likely forgot all of now, besides Christopher Columbus (which is tragic honestly,… read more Henry Hudson Springs

Hamilton/Burr Got Milk? commercial from sometime in the 90’s In the early days of this country, if you didn’t get along with a political rival,… read more Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr Duel Site