Scenic Highway

Pensacola's Scenic Highway is the first of Florida's official scenic highways, completed in 1929 for one million dollars. The road is approximately eleven miles long, stretching from the Bayou Texar bridge at the southern end to the U.S. 90 bridge ...

U.S. Naval Hospital Pensacola

United States Naval Hospital Pensacola in Florida has a long history that has resulted in the creation and reconstruction of six different Naval Hospitals. Its origins are credited to Doctor Isaac Hulse who in 1826 was commissioned by President John ...

Hotel Alcazar

Located in the heart of downtown historic St. Augustine, Henry Flagler, a railroad tycoon, built the Hotel Alcazar as a sister hotel to the Hotel Ponce de Leon. Thomas Hastings and John Carrére, architects of the New York City Library, ...

Battleship Rock and the Jemez Mountains

Jutting out from the forest like a ship of war emerging from the fog, Battleship Rock is a unique stone feature representing millions of years of geological history.

The 200 foot tall welded volcanic ash wonder is named due to ...

Palace of the Governors

After Don Pedro de Peralta established Santa Fe in 1609, the Palace of Governors was built as the capital building for the Nuevo Mexico colony. The Palace was part of a larger series of structures, the Casa Reales, and used ...

Castle Warden

William Warden, a partner of Henry Fagler and John D. Rockefeller, built his winter home in the up-and-coming neighborhood of Abbott Tract in 1887.

Abbott Tract was the first area developed outside of colonial St. Augustine. At the time, the ...

109 East Palace Avenue

In 1943, the Manhattan Project established a top-secret atomic weapons research facility, known as Site Y, in isolated Los Alamos, New Mexico. Scientists and their families soon began arriving in nearby Santa Fe from all over the country, but remained ...

St. Thomas More Catholic Church

The Pensacola area has housed Catholics since its founding by the Spanish. The village of Warrington is not any different. Since the creation of the town, a large number of Catholics lived and worshipped in the area, which continued after ...

Scenic Highway Portion of the L & N

The Louisville and Nashville Railroad officially opened on November 1, 1859. The original purpose of the railway was to connect the two cities of its namesake, but L & N quickly began to purchase other railroad companies, thus extending their ...

Ashley Pond/Ice House

In 1917, Ashley Pond, a former Roosevelt Rough Rider, established the Los Alamos Ranch School for Boys in the Jemez Mountains north of Santa Fe, New Mexico.

On the grounds was a small lake that the school used for a water ...