It takes a lot of time and effort to reconstruct an entire 18th century star fort more or less from scratch. It’s not something you see being done that often. Yet that’s just what happened with Fort Stanwix National Monument back in the 1970s.
The USS Constitution was once one of six wood-hulled, three-masted heavy frigates originally built for the US Navy. She’s the last one left.
The National Park Service now cares for what was once America’s oldest and largest federal armory. If you want to see hundreds of firearms stacked up in intimidating rows, this is the place to be.
Alexander Hamilton’s storming of Redoubt #10 was only a small part of a battle that, over the course of nearly three weeks, had relatively little to do with storming barricades and lots to do with big cannons blasting away at each other.
If you’re visiting Washington, DC and find yourself standing at the southern edge of Lafayette Square, chances are you’re there to get a view of the White House. But take a few minutes to look around and you’ll also see the park contains some fascinating statuary. There are some great stories behind those statues.
One of the less well-advertised walking tours available at Independence National Historical Park takes visitors to a section of Philadelphia’s Old City loved by local residents but usually overlooked by visitors on their way to see Independence Hall or the Liberty Bell. This is a Philadelphia city park, just yards away from these more famous sites, that combines a quiet, shady respite from city hustle with an intriguing historical monument to the dead of the Revolutionary War.
I love the Freedom Trail. It’s basically just a red brick path that runs through historic Boston, but its existence transforms the visitor’s experience of that city. It’s very cool, and very Boston.
The USS John Paul Jones is just one of many guided missile destroyers in the U.S. Navy. But its name harks back to the country’s greatest naval hero, who just so happened to hail from Scotland.
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