Pat Garrett Murder Site

Pat Garrett, murdered on February 29, 1908, is well-known in Old West lore for his single-minded pursuit of William Bonney, known as Billy the Kid.

Garrett was born on June 5, 1850 in Chambers County, Alabama, and raised on his family’s ...

Matias Soto

Matias Soto 1796-1834

Very little is known about Don Matias Soto. His weathered tombstone is the only record of his life. He was born in 1796 in Villaslada de Cameros, Spain. He immigrated to Pensaocla in the early 19th century, ...

Postal Station B

“Postal Station B, also known as the Central Post Office, is an eight-story building in Ottawa’s Confederation Square National Historic Site of Canada. Classically inspired, its cornice heights and its bay replicate those of its neighbor, Langevin Block.

“The building was ...

Bate Building

“The tall Bate Building is situated on the north side of Sparks Street in the core of Ottawa’s central business district. Built in 1859, the Bate building has undergone many changes resulting in the loss of architectural integrity. Apparently the ...

Hatch, New Mexico

Hatch, New Mexico began as many other New Mexican towns, as a small settlement of farmers near water, the Rio Grande River in 1851. Only a short few years later, in 1853, nearby Apache Indian tribes raided the town, driving ...

Dripping Springs Natural Area

In the late nineteenth century, Colonel Eugene Van Patten, a former confederate soldier, homesteaded property in the Organ Mountains above Las Cruces, New Mexico. He built a two-story 14-room stone resort, complete with dining room and a concert hall. Originally ...

General Grant National Memorial (Grant's Tomb)

Commonly referred to as Grant's Tomb, the General Grant National Memorial is a National Park Service administered monument in Upper Manhattan. The memorial's mausoleum is the resting place of General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia.

General Grant served ...

Archibald Smith Plantation Home

The Union gun fire echoed through the morning mist in the small southern town of Roswell, Georgia as the Smith family packed up their belongings, not knowing if they would ever return to their beloved home. The Archibald Smith Plantation ...

St. Augustine Alligator Farm

What’s more Floridian than an alligator? The St. Augustine Alligator Farm has been a local institution since 1893. Originally created to showcase reptiles and ostriches to Gilded Age tourists, the Alligator Farm has grown into an accredited zoo the entire ...

Ximenez-Fatio House Museum

During a time of male patriarchy, the nineteenth century rarely saw powerful female governance. But what is now the Ximinez-Fatio House Museum witnessed ownership by three independent women. Located on Aviles Street – one of the oldest thoroughfares in America ...