John McMahon Environmental Education Center

Now owned and operated by the City of Crestview, the Environmental Center was originally conceived and started by former Okaloosa County Forester John McMahon in 1979. The center offers a park-like setting with picnic area and two ornamental fish ponds ...

Catalan Fishermen of Banyuls-sur-Mer

The Catalan Fishing Village of Banyuls-sur-Mer

Banyuls-sur-Mer is a seaside village in the most southern corner of France located in the region of Languedoc-Roussillon of the Eastern Pyrenees. The village lays nestled between foothills, the steeps slopes covered with vast ...

National Natural Reserve of the Massane Forest

Massane Forest National Preserve

The National Nature Reserve of the Massane Forest situated in the Argelès-sur-Mer territory of Southern France is part primeval and restored forest. Located on 830 acres of the Albères Mountains north of Catalonia, between France and ...

Ardmore Round Tower And Cathedral

On a return trip to Wales in the 5th century, St Declan came across the village of Ardmore and founded a monastery there. Today, a number of sites remain from his monastic city, located just 15km from Youghal in County ...

Waterford's Medieval Museum

Waterford's Medieval Museum is a tribute to life in the city during that period. Why not come and experience the wonder of our medieval city. A team actors playing different characters will bring to life Waterford’s fascinating history in these ...

Estate St. George Historic District

The Estate St. George Historic District represents a successful late 18th-century sugar plantation. Owned by the Heyliger family during the era known as the "Golden Age of Sugar" (1770 to 1782), the estate continued to process sugar until 1916. After ...

Christiansted National Historic Site

Founded on the site of an earlier French settlement, Christiansted was laid out in a grid pattern with two market places. Market Square is located between Company and King Streets in the west end of town and Sunday Market is ...

Cinnamon Bay Plantation

Established by the Danes in 1717, Cinnamon Bay Plantation is one of the earliest sugar plantation settlements on St. John. In 1733 the owner of the plantation, Daniel Jensen, played a pivotal role in the slave rebellion which swept the ...

Mary Point Estate

The Mary Point Great House and Factory, where cotton was cultivated and cattle grazed in the past, is associated with Governor Berg, 19th-century Governnor and President of St. Thomas and St. John, influential late 18th-century planter Augustus Kragh and the ...

Hermitage Plantation Historic District

Although established after 1780, the cotton-cultivating Hermitage Plantation possessed numerous plantation buildings by 1800. The structures of Hermitage Plantation Historic District are clustered along the north side of Borck Creek, one of Coral Bay's several inlets. By the mid-19th century, ...