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As a kid, nothing made a long drive complete like a stop at a historic site. From the battlefields of the Civil War, to time traveling back to early Plymouth at Plimoth Plantation, there’s more to American history than we realize, and it’s all around us. Just ahead at the next exit even.

Daily Life of the 19th Century: Patent Medications and Homeopathic cures at Washington Irving’s Sunnyside

Daily Life in History, historic sites, Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson River Valley, The History Trekker, Witch's Garden

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When you’re touring a historic home museum, keep an eye out for the little details which speak volumes about the people who lived there. Sunnyside was the home of American author Washington Irving, who wrote most famously, the short stories The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Rip Van Winkle. Irving was a renowned man of […]

Exploring ancient Greece in Nashville, TN: The Parthenon

Appalachia, historic sites, Nashville, Pagans, Heathens and Witchcraft, Southern Seaboard, The History Trekker

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Nashville, Tennessee has been called the Athens of the South since the mid 19th century. In a part of the country which at the time, wasn’t renowned for educating its citizens, Nashville could boast not only a public school system, but several colleges and universities as well. By century’s end, Belmont University, Fisk University, Meharry Medical College, […]

Revolutionary War Battlefields: Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts

American Revolution, historic sites, Lexington and Concord, New England, The History Trekker

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The Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts, was the site of the first real skirmish of the American Revolution. Earlier on the morning of April 19, 1775, British soldiers opened fire on a company of militia down the road in Lexington, but that hardly qualifies as a skirmish. The colonial militia at Lexington didn’t intend […]