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I live in Rockland County, and have been spending free time visiting historical sites in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I write about these trips, and that's why this weblog was created.
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2009-10-01 - The Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center is an awesome memorial to the battle that ravaged this town, and to the people whose lives were changed forever by the events that oc...
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2009-10-15 - Located among Baltimore's historic southwest neighborhoods, at the original site of the historic Mt. Clare Shops, the B&O Railroad Museum occupies the oldest railroad manufacturing complex in the U...
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Things To Do in Highland Falls
2009-09-26 - Conveniently situated directly adjacent to the visitor center, the West Point Museum is the oldest military museum in the country, and is considered to contain the largest diversified public collec...
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2009-09-24 - A post-9/11 visit to the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY is an experience that is very different from what used to be. In the past, visitors were free to walk around the campus. No...
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2009-12-10 - On a railroad construction assignment in Arizona in 1897, a young electrical engineer acquired an Apache deerskin shirt. This acquisition marked the beginning of a hobby that developed into a full-...
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2009-10-03 - Surely technological progress must continue, but seeing the American Civil War Museum in Gettysburg made me realize what a great thing a wax museum can be. If done right, scenes depicted in a wax m...
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2009-12-05 - Established by the Dutch in 1652 as the third settlement in the New Netherland colony, an active participant in the American Revolution, and a major river-port during the canal and steamboat era, K...
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2009-10-05 - The Gettysburg Train Station is now owned by the Borough of Gettysburg, and the entire first floor has been turned into a museum. The museum contains artifacts found during station renovation, a di...
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2009-09-21 - Peking was launched in 1911 at Hamburg, Germany by the Blohm & Voss shipyard. She was owned by the F. Laeisz Company of that port, who used her to carry fuel and manufactured goods to the Pacific C...
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2009-08-11 - Steamtown National Historic Site occupies about forty acres of the DL&W's Scranton railroad yard, which at its peak employed several thousand workers. Steamtown owns a large collection of locomotiv...
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2009-11-05 - Baltimore's Inner Harbor was chiefly a light freight commercial port and passenger port until the 1950s, when economic shifts caused a steep decline in freight and passenger traffic. Rotting wareho...
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2009-10-09 - Every movement, trend, style and ideology inevitably brings on the next phase. Excesses are made, causing the pendulum to swing back in the other direction. The eighteenth century brought on what i...
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2009-10-27 - From the time of the first European settlers until the commercialization of air transportation, the southern tip of Manhattan Island has been a first line of defense. That being the case, a basic a...
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Things To Do in King of Prussia
2009-08-16 - Today's Valley Forge National Historical Park is operated by the U.S. National Park Service. You can watch a 20 minute video to get introduced to the story of Valley Forge, walk through the museum ...
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2009-10-13 - The top photo shows Fort Christina State Park, which occupies the ship's original landing site. The next photo is a closeup showing the reconstructed fort, and the third one shows the Kalmar Nyckel...
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2009-11-20 - While certainly noteworthy, the sewing of a nation's first flag is not an event of historical proportion. Lives are not changed by this event alone, boundaries are not altered and no transfer of po...
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2009-11-02 - If you visit Fort McHenry the first stop is the visitor center, where there's an orientation video, a scale model showing how the fort appeared at the time of the battle, and a few small exhibits c...
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2009-10-18 - The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum's sprawling campus contains an extensive collection of indigenous water craft, and features a working boat yard that lets you try your hand as an apprentice. Exhi...
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2009-09-19 - Lightship Ambrose is on exhibit at the South Street Seaport Museum, which boast of being home to the nation's largest fleet of privately maintained historic vessels. You can board the ship and walk...
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Things To Do in Atlantic Highlands
2009-08-08 - Sandy Hook is now part of the National Park Service's Gateway National Recreation Area, and the The Twin Lights of Navesink are a New Jersey State Historic Site. I visited both yesterday; following...
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