Category: Places to Visit
William McKinley Monument in Buffalo
If you have ever watched a Buffalo Bills game you have seen the William McKinley Monument in front of City Hall. As the game begins,…
Tioga Civil War Memorial at Owego New York
There are a dozen villages and cities in Central New York that sound like they have the same name. Oswego, Otsego, and Owego are frequently…
Soldiers and Sailors Monument Providence, Rhode Island
Kennedy Square in Providence, Rhode Island is a major bus terminal for the whole city. The City Hall, erected in 1878 and the Federal Court…
Chester A. Arthur Statue Madison Square Park New York City
Madison Square Park on Manhattan is an attractive public space. It has several statues on exhibit including Saint-Gaudens’s Admiral David Farragut and Republican Senator Roscoe…
Roswell Textile Mills Georgia Where Confederate Cloth Was Manufactured
Roswell was a Georgia textile town before the Civil War. Once the war started, the Confederate government contracted with the mills to produce a wide…
Roswell Georgia Monument to Women “Lost Mill Workers”
I have been to Roswell, Georgia on several occasions to view the ruined mill sites along Vickery Creek. In 1864, during his campaign to capture…
Schoharie Crossing Erie Canal New York
I told a friend I was going to photograph Schoharie Crossing near Albany. He said “So, you’ve stopped taking pictures of Civil War sites.” No,…
Information About Slavery “Scrubbed” from Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta, where the house that one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement grew up in…
Video Politics & Memory in Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York
Akela Reason from the University of Georgia speaks about the building of Civil War monuments in New York City and Brooklyn. After Gettysburg, New York…
End of the Oregon Trail Museum Oregon City, Oregon
“You died from dysentery.” The Oregon Trail would seem like it did not have much to do with the Civil War, but the trail was…