Category: Places to Visit

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

Port Jervis is a small city where New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey meet. The city has 8,775 residents according to the 2020, down by…

Milford, Pennsylvania is the county seat of Pike County. This is a very small borough located on the Delaware River across from New Jersey. The…