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Have you visited any historical places. Do you have any to recommend?
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Boston Tea Party Festival, Old Sacramento town. I like to visit Central Park NY
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Gettysburg, PA is an awesome place to visit.
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I always enjoy going to Washington, DC. There is so much to see and do - the White House, Washington Monument, the Capitol, the Lincoln, Jefferson, and other memorials, the Air and Space Museum, the Holocaust Museum and more! I especially enjoy the Smithsonian museum - you could spend days just exploring that!
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Great question for summertime travels. My home state, Illinois, is the land of Lincoln. You can find things everywhere about Lincoln.
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We love Williamsburg Va. No matter how many times you have been before, you can always take something different away with you.
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I use to live in Washington, DC so I was able to explore so many historic places. I loved it! I started with a list of the top places to visit and after those were crossed off I kept finding more and more. I recommend a guided tour because some of the guides are so rich with fun and interesting facts I would have never known. It's a great place to learn, explore, and pay tribute.
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lincolns birth place lincoln memorial washington memorial
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Washington DC has tons of historical places to visit. Boston is another city that has so many places to visit as well. Gettysburg is great for seeing old battlefields. There are a few places that also have actors / staff that portrait people as they would have lived during that time in history: Williamsburg and Fort Snelling are 2 places I've gone to that do that. Colorado is also good for both natural and event history as exemplified by Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peek respectively.
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Williamsburg, VA is a good historical place to visit. St. Petersburg and Fort Lauderdale, FL are a couple of other good places. I will be checking out historical places on the Big Island of Hawaii in a couple of weeks.
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Great question for summertime travels. My home state, Illinois, is the land of Lincoln. You can find things everywhere about Lincoln.
Lincoln has always been an interest of mine. Anything that is a must do ?
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how about visiting the Smoky Mountains, that a great place.
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We have been to Williamsburg, VA area twice and Washington, DC.
The Williamsburg-Jamestown-Yorktown triangle is full of American history - and the best part of it all is how well the history is portrayed, from the authentically reproduced, handmade costumes of Colonial Williamsburg's interpreters to the carefully laid out Jamestown settlement, to the eerily preserved portions of the Yorktown battlefield.
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I went Gettysburg PA, you can watched the movie and the oil painting like what happen before the civil war. The people wear clothes like in the era of civil war.
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I would love to go to Gettysburg and to Washington DC. Maybe Salem for the Witch Trials.
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I love to visit civil war sites and historical houses.
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No I have never in my life visited anything historical ::) ::) ::) ::) really? 8)
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The Grand Canyon
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One of my favorites was a trip to Tennessee where we visited Graceland in Memphis and attended a show at the Ryman Auditorium where the Grand Ol' Opry started.
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Thanks for the ideas, looking to take a long weekend somewhere. A lot of good ideas.
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great suggestions. I have added some of them to my bucket list.
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Yes I have, and I would recommend you to Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
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Go visit the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. I miss MA so much.
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Go visit the Mayflower and Plymouth Rock. I miss MA so much.
I did that and I agree, it was awesome. We went to the settlement where all the people dressed in the style of that period and even carried on conversation with us as if it was back then.
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In my area St. Augustine is my favorite place to visit and it is definitely historic. But I have such severe mobility issues haven't been able to do that in years. I also live somewhat close to Daytona Beach and it has some historic places to visit but not as much as St. Augustine.
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Southern South Carolina area with ChArles ton and Beaufort areas are our favorites.
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Philadelphia is pretty good for history. Betsy Ross House, Ben Franklin's grave (and others), the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Reading Terminal Market, Museum of Art (where Rocky ran up the steps in the movie), South Street, Valley Forge, the 2 cheesesteak rivals Pat's established in 1930, and Geno's right across the street who are historical icons in their own right. :) I for one don't care for the melted Velvetta "sauce" on my cheesesteak. i like provolone or white American. Oh, and the Italian Market close to Pat's.
I googled Philly cheesesteaks and up popped a website called visitphilly.com that suggests all things Philly. :)
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Southern South Carolina area with ChArles ton and Beaufort areas are our favorites.
I loved visiting there when my son graduated from Parris Island. We went to a steak house every night "somewhere around Beaufort" and it had the best steak and seafood I've ever had, plus my mom had one of the burgers and it was so big, she couldn't finish it!
I would love to go back but can't.
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the old prison in mansfield ohio
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I use to live in Washington, DC so I was able to explore so many historic places. I loved it! I started with a list of the top places to visit and after those were crossed off I kept finding more and more. I recommend a guided tour because some of the guides are so rich with fun and interesting facts I would have never known. It's a great place to learn, explore, and pay tribute.
Good thing about DC is that a lot of it is free of charge!
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the old prison in mansfield ohio
Or Alcatraz in San Francisco and you get a boat ride on the Bay as part of the tour.
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Do some research before you visit historical places.
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Lived here 5 years, and never realized that there is an old road in a near by town that was a stagecoach rest stop 150 or so years ago. They have an old sawmill out there and a blacksmith shop. Also a museum of old wagons that were horse-drawn in the 1800's and early 1900's.
It is in Greenbush, Wisconsin, and called Old Wade House.
Great fun.....you get around by horse-drawn wagons :)
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I would say there are a lot in Washington DC. Go visit Ford's Theater where Lincoln was assassinated The Liberty bell in Philadelphia, United Nation in New York or Niagra Falls, Ellis Island with the Statue of Liberty, Empire State building, so much more.
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I like staycations and daycations. If I can take a day trip to somewhere is Southern Utah.....
I'm one happy camper. :heart:
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June 1, 2016
Hello to everyone out there in Fusion Cash world:
No, I have not physically visited any "historic place." But, I have seen "documentaries" on tiv about "historical places" with Huell Howser.
He narrated the story about these "coal miners" who lived in the l900's out in the boondox someplace in a different state than from California which is where my husband Mario and I live.
Anyways, his narration about this place was quite interesting, to say the least.
Basically, it was a place where families lived together and the men would go out to the mines and dig for gold.
And, this is how they got paid in currency at the time, that is what i understood.
Anyways, because mos of these families were poor...........a lot of physical fights with guns went on in this town and men would shoot one another as they got into these brawls.
And, this one child became angry according to the historian who was telling the story about these miner's lives when his mom told him, "No Jimmy you cannot go out and play in the back yard today son.
He threw a temper tantrum and then went out to his back yard and he started a "fire" which burned the whole town down and everyone was forced to move out of that place!
And, they even showed a picture of the child who had done this horrible thing to that town!
And, believe it or not, they named the town after this child!
And,
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I live in so oregon and the Indians used to roam this land. By my home is a hot springs which was a peaceful place for all...all land has a history...