“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
San Antonio Missions National Historic Park
San Antonio Missions National Historical Park preserves four of the five Spanish frontier missions in San Antonio, Texas. The fifth and best-known mission in San Antonio, the Alamo, owned by the State of Texas, is not part of the park. Over 400 years ago Spanish expeditions began to explore the land that is now the American Southwest. Read More ...
Tombstone, Arizona – The Town Too Tough To Die
“The grimly humorous phrase about our town was that Tombstone had a man for breakfast every morning.” — Josephine Sarah Marcus, actress Tombstone, Arizona, one of the most lawless mining camps in the American West, was soon dubbed “The Town Too Tough to Die.” The mining camp was born when a prospector named Read More ...
The Long History of Alcatraz Island
Sitting like a beacon in the middle of the San Francisco Bay of California is Alcatraz Island. Though most prominently known for the years it served as a maximum-security prison, the “Rock’s” history stretches far beyond those infamous days, and its legends and stories continue to find their way into American lore. ~~~~ History of Read More ...
I really love your articles. I’m from Oregon and it’s good to see someone write about the history out here!
For your Lost Landmarks collection, you should check out the Buckhorn Baths Motel in Mesa, AZ. It’s still there, but who knows for how long. The extensive taxidermy collection has already been donated to the university.
‘Demolished date’ typo for captions of several NYC train station photos: “New York City, NY – Train Gate, 1942 The original Pennyslvania Station in New York City was opened in 1910. By 1945, the station peaked with more than 100 million passengers traveling through each year. It was demolished in 1863, causing international outrage and galvanized the modern historic preservation movement. Photo by Marjory Collins, 1942.”
RH Flint
Golden, CO
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