Photos from June 2013 Old Brunswick Town predates the American Revolution and was once an important port along the Cape Fear River. The growing size and importance of nearby Wilmington chipped away at Brunswick’s significance and population. In 1776, the British attacked the town and scattered its few...
Fort Fisher photos from May 2010 Hermit Bunker & Grave photos from May 2011 This wound up being a 2 part trip. My wife and I have been vacationing in southern North Carolina for a few years. While looking up things to do, both traditional and nontraditional (you...
Who is Beth Doe? This question has remained unanswered since December of 1976, when a woman’s body, cut up and stuffed into 3 suitcases, was tossed from a bridge along Route 80 near White Haven. There was no identification on her. There were no leads. Nobody ever reported...
I read about this cemetery after my first trip to Block Island and decided to look for it on my second trip. I had never been to an “Indian” cemetery before and was curious to see one. This graveyard was used by the Manisee tribe who originally inhabited...
Pine Ridge Pet Cemetery is the oldest in the US that’s run by an animal welfare group. We originally came here because we read about a few celebrities’ pets being interred here, but it’s an impressive place so we stayed a while. Some sections are especially old and...
Hidden in between Fort Indiantown Gap Military Reservation and Swatara State Park in northern Lebanon County are the ruins of the town of Rausch Gap, once a mining and railroad town. The basics are up on that sign right there, so I’m not going to reiterate all of...
We found this on our way to the ghost town of Celestia. At first glance, this looks like a small cemetery next to a ravine and with only a handful of graves. Truth is, in 1906 the middle of the cemetery was washed away in a flood. There...
If my wife hadn’t seen the small American flag sticking up over the top of the hill, I would have had no idea this was hidden up there. Located almost directly across from the park office is this seemingly little known cemetery. Several of the stones are pre-Civil...
