Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial

The Brittany American Cemetery and Memorial in France covers 28 acres of rolling farm country near the eastern edge of Brittany and contains the remains of 4,410 of our war dead, most of whom lost their lives in the Normandy ...

Audubon House and Gardens

Louis Wolfson arrived in Key West in 1902, and opened his Store of Fashion on Duval Street. In 1958 Mitchell Wolfson, Sr., one-time mayor of Miami Beach and native of Key West, bought a dilapidated house belonging to an old ...

Mt. Zion Baptist Church

Mt. Zion Baptist Church, a handsome redbrick late Victorian Gothic church, is home to one of Asheville's largest congregations of African Americans. In the spring of 1880, Reverend Robert Parker Rumley established a new African American Baptist church in Asheville, ...

Biltmore Estate

George W. Vanderbilt, youngest son of William H. Vanderbilt and grandson of "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, enjoyed visiting western North Carolina for its mild climate and spectacular scenery. During a visit in the mid-1880s, Vanderbilt was inspired by a view from ...

Clarence Barker Memorial Hospital (Biltmore Hospital)

Shortly after All Soul's Parish was established in 1896, George W. Vanderbilt gave the land and contributed handsomely to the endowment of the Clarence Barker Memorial Hospital, incorporated on June 13, 1900. The hospital was designed by Richard Sharp Smith, ...

Unearthing Florida: Battle of Okeechobee

In the year 2000, a portion of the largest battleground of the Second Seminole War was purchased by the state and designated as Okeechobee Battlefield Historic State Park.

The battle occurred on Christmas Day of 1837 on the north shore of ...

Southern Railway Passenger Depot (Biltmore Depot)

The village of Best, named for owner of the Western North Carolina Railroad, William J. Best, was the location of Asheville's first railway station with its initiation October 3, 1880. Railway passengers traveling to Asheville and surrounding areas used the ...

Biltmore Estate Office

George Washington Vanderbilt's vision for his Biltmore Estate was not limited to his grand mansion, but included a picturesque, manorial village that would serve as an ornament of the landscape and solve the practical problem of housing estate workers and ...

Lizzie Borden House

Located on 92nd street in the community of River Fall Rhode Island resides the house of Andrew J. Borden. In 1892, the murders of Andrew and his wife, Abby Borden, became an American controversy for the latter half of the ...

Bledsoe Building

Built in 1927, the Bledsoe Building is the largest building along Haywood Road, the main commercial corridor of West Asheville in the area of town west of the French Broad River. West Asheville had once been a separate town that ...