I was in Williamsburg for a visit last weekend and wanted to check out Tyndalls Point Park. I have been to both Yorktown Museums (Federal and State) a number of times, but…
Category: Museums and Battlefields
Saratoga Battlefield – Stillwater, New York
Well, it had been a long trip and we ended the major historical sites with a visit to the Saratoga National Battlefield. We drove onto the grounds and checked in at the…
Fort Ticonderoga – Ticonderoga, New York.
After having a nice night sitting on the banks of Lake George and then getting a nice nights sleep, we were off to our next destination! After a thirty minute drive north,…
Fort William Henry – Lake George, New York.
Well, we arrived on the east side of the state, in the heart of the Hudson River valley, in Lake George. Fort William Henry is right in the middle of the town…
Fort Plain – Fort Plain, New York.
We continued on our eastward trek across the state and stopped off in Fort Plain. This was not on our original bingo card, but it came up in my on the road…
Fort Stanwix – Rome, New York and Oriskany Battlefield.
We finished up our tours of sites around the greater Buffalo area and started to work our way across the state. We hit a few historical homes in Rochester for a day…
Buffalo Naval Museum Park – Buffalo, New York.
We started the day by swinging by the museum at the house that Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president, after the death of President McKinley. Next on our military list was…
Fort Niagara – Niagara, New York.
Well, TJ and I made it to Buffalo and had a nice dinner eating some celebrated wings. We spent the next day looking at Frank Loyd Wright houses in the area. Following…
Fort Augusta, Sunbury Pennsylvania
TJ and I had been talking about going on another road trip and checking out historical sites in rural New York. Well, we had chatted it up for a while, but not…
WWII American Experience Museum, Gettysburg Pennsylvania.
A relatively new museum located in the Gettysburg Pennsylvania area is the WWII American Experience Museum. A couple of buddies of mine and I were in the Gettysburg area recently to check…