A Landscape Of Inequality

Enslaved Life at The Hermitage

The idyllic planter’s life presented to white visitors by the Jackson family was based on the unpaid labor of over 150 enslaved black men, women, and children. Without the grueling labor of these individuals, the Jackson ...

The Hermitage Landscape

Frontier Farm to Cotton Plantation to Shrine

At first glance, The Hermitage Landscape may seem largely untouched by time. Look more closely, however, and discover the changes brought by over 200 years of labor...living...and a changing America.

White Americans and their slave ...

Landscape Restoration Project

In 1787 this field was a grassy meadow dotted with tall hardwoods, native grasses and cane. Today, the land is being restored to its appearance at the time of the battle.

Marker can be reached from Chesnee Highway (South Carolina Route ...

Life and Landscape Transformed

The landscape before you has existed on Earth for less than 1,000 years, less time than Romanesque architecture or paper money. Consequently, this environment has unique scientific value.

Geologists come here to study weathering processes and soil formation. Ecologists are learning ...

MaryLandscapes

The Bay is part of a vast interconnected ecosystem. Everything done on land affects the Bay and the plants and animals that live there.

Who is affected by the health of the Chesapeake Bay? The 48 major rivers, 100 smaller rivers, ...

Vaux Landscape

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Hillside Cemetery, 1861. Picturesque design by Clavert Vaux, renowned Anglo-American architect, and co-designer of Central Park in New York City.

Marker is at the intersection of Fulton St. (New York Route 17M) and Mulberry St on Fulton St..

Courtesy hmdb.org

MaryLandscapes

The Bay is part of a vast interconnected ecosystem. Everything done on land affects the Bay and the plants and animals that live there.

Who is affected by the health of the Chesapeake Bay? The 48 major rivers, 100 smaller ...