Category: Places to Visit
NPS Announces Seven New Sites Added to Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
The National Park Service announced this month the addition of seven new sites to the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. “This national network connects sites…
West Point Foundry at Cold Spring New York Where the Parrott Gun Was Developed
In 2013 the new West Point Foundry Preserve opened in Cold Spring, New York right next to the Hudson River. Mathews Nielsen Landscape Architects designed…
Southold N.Y. Civil War Monument Photo Tour on Long Island’s North Fork
Southold is a developing town on Long Island’s hopping North Fork. Five decades ago it was a rarely visited remote rural community. Today, that is…
Northfield Cemetery Stamford, Connecticut
Northfield Cemetery in Stamford, Connecticut has some of the oldest graves in that city. Begun as a formal cemetery in 1787, there are burials there…
Harriet Tubman Statue in Beaufort, S.C. Unveiled Honoring Her Role in Civil War
A new statue of Harriet Tubman has been unveiled in Beaufort, South Carolina for her role in the Combahee River Raid that freed 700 South…
Fulton Ferry Brooklyn, the Civil War, the Draft Riots, and Walt Whitman-Photo Tour
In researching the Civil War and Reconstruction in New York City, I keep coming across Fulton Ferry. I have mentioned it a dozen times for…
Frederick Douglass Statue at New-York Historical Society
Frederick Douglass stands at the top of a stair leading into the New-York Historical Society. The statue was installed in 2011 just as the United…
The Irish Fighting 69th Monument at Calvary Cemetery in Queens
I visited the monument erected by the veterans of the most famous Irish American regiment of the Civil War, the Fighting 69th (69th NYVI) at…
Rye New York African American Cemetery Where USCT & 54th Massachusetts Rest
Right off of I-95 in Rye, New York lies a forgotten cemetery where for 120 years local African American families had buried their dead. The…
Second Bull Run’s Oldest Monument
People viewing this week’s monument might think they recognize it as the First Bull Run monument, but they would be wrong. This is the Second…
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