Category: Places to Visit
Seven New Sites Have Been Added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
The National Park Service announced that seven new sites have been added to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. Here is the announcement: The National…
Westfield Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Westfield, Massachusetts is, well, just to the west of Springfield, Massachusetts. It was settled in the 1600s and, until 1725, it was the westernmost settlement…
Deerfield Massachusetts Civil War Soldier’s Monument
Deerfield, Massachusetts is an historic town that was the focus of a French and Indian raid that resulted in dozens of its people being killed…
Springfield Armory in Massachusetts
At the start of the Civil War, the United States had two Federal armories, one at Springfield, Massachusetts and the other at Harpers Ferry, Virginia….
Camden New Jersey Civil War Memorial
I drove down to Camden, New Jersey at the start of November to see the Camden Civil War Memorial. The Historical Marker Data Base has…
General Charles Harker’s Grave at Swedesboro New Jersey
As every New Jersey school kid knows, the southern part of the state was part of a still-born Swedish Empire back in the 1600s. The…
Greetings from Asbury Park Civil War Monument on the Jersey Shore
When you first see the Civil War monument below you might think it is in South Carolina. It is ringed with tropical plants, maybe even…
Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Toms River New Jersey
Toms River is the county seat of Ocean County, New Jersey. The county was only created a decade before the Civil War. The population had…
Waterloo Village New Jersey Canal Town During the Civil War
Waterloo Village State Historic Site is located in New Jersey’s Allamuchy Mountain State Park in Stanhope, N.J. It was the midway point on the 102…
Gettysburg Cyclorama Explained by Chris Brenneman on Addressing Gettysburg
Chris Brenneman gives a very good explanation of the Gettysburg Cyclorama, a 19th Century paining-in-the-round that depicts “Pickett’s Charge” during the Battle of Gettysburg. Matt…