Virginia is where the British entered and started the United States. As you’d expect, it’s jam-packed with historical sites like the Appomattox Court House, Harpers Ferry, Cumberland Gap, and Colonial National Historical Park. But it has its fair share of wilderness as well. For instance,...
and the role it played in the American Revolution. Set in the southeast on the vast Virginia Peninsula, it is home to captivating Colonial Williamsburg, one of the largest living-history museums in the world.
This Colonial Revival structure has served as the home of numerous early city and county officials, physicians, and business owners since the 1890s. Residents include the McLesky, Foster, Oliver, Jones, Robertson, Waters and Garmon families. There have been changes to the exterior including the...
Canada’s largest and most populous city, Toronto is the capital of Ontario and sits on the eponymous Lake Ontario itself – all 24,000 square miles of it. With a European history going back to the 18th century, Toronto originally grew from a British colonial settlement called York. Today,...
North Carolina, constituent state of the U.S. One of the 13 original states, it lies on the Atlantic coast midway between New York and Florida. It is bounded to the north by Virginia, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by South Carolina and