I live near the Winchester Mystery House

I live near Penshaw Monument, which isn't very famous, but it's a landmark. Other than that, I don't live too far away from the Angel of the North, we've drove past it a couple of times

I live outside of Boston so I live near alot of them.  Just like Philip living outside of London, it is
just one big history lesson.  Let's see Old Ironsides, Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, the
Adams Homestead, Salem(where they burned the "witches"), Revere Beach(oldest public beach
in the U.S.) Plymouth Rock, etc. etc  :)

I live outside of Boston so I live near alot of them.  Just like Philip living outside of London, it is
just one big history lesson.  Let's see Old Ironsides, Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, the
Adams Homestead, Salem(where they burned the "witches"), Revere Beach(oldest public beach
in the U.S.) Plymouth Rock, etc. etc  :)

you didn't mention fenway park

Like Phil, most of the landmarks are in the smoke, but on a more local scale...

I'm about 10 miles from the Medway town of Rochester, where Charles Dickens had a large involvement (nice cathedral and castle too), and a few more miles in a different direction is Pluckley - supposedly the most haunted town in the UK...

And in the town next door (Dartford), there's the birthplace and childhood home of a certain Michael Jagger...

I'm about 10 miles from the Medway town of Rochester, where Charles Dickens had a large involvement (nice cathedral and castle too), and a few more miles in a different direction is Pluckley - supposedly the most haunted town in the UK...

That's very interesting, Paul...

I love castles and old cathedrals... :)

I live about 10 miles from the headquarters of the LDS church.  Their temple is an architectural marvel.  I don't follow that church at all, but the building is beautiful and the way they light it up at Christmas is gorgeous.

I live about 10 miles from the headquarters of the LDS church.  Their temple is an architectural marvel.  I don't follow that church at all, but the building is beautiful and the way they light it up at Christmas is gorgeous.


I've driven past that before...it is pretty spectacular!  8)

I love castles and old cathedrals... :)


It's also very good if you like books...there's countless bookshops around the place...

Anyway, top to bottom...

The Castle
The Cathedral (as seen from The Castle)
Dickens' Chalet
...and the nutcases who take part in the Sweep's Festival (normally held in May...)

It's also very good if you like books...there's countless bookshops around the place...

Anyway, top to bottom...

The Castle
The Cathedral (as seen from The Castle)
Dickens' Chalet
...and the nutcases who take part in the Sweep's Festival (normally held in May...)


Great pictures!  I especially love the one of the cathedral!

Perhaps one day I'll get to see those in person!  :)

I live outside of Boston so I live near alot of them.  Just like Philip living outside of London, it is
just one big history lesson.  Let's see Old Ironsides, Bunker Hill, Lexington and Concord, the
Adams Homestead, Salem(where they burned the "witches"), Revere Beach(oldest public beach
in the U.S.) Plymouth Rock, etc. etc  :)



I love going to your neck of the woods. There is so much there. The last time we were there, we went to see Old Ironsides.



Another thing I forgot to mention, we live fairly close to Fort Ticonderoga. We usually see it from Lake Champlain because that is our "usual" anchoring place.




Cat

you didn't mention fenway park


Braves Field too, which is now owned by BU and is used for soccer.  Babe Ruth ended his career at
Braves Field playing for the Boston Braves. My grandmother was a huge Boston Braves fan and
after they left Boston never spoke their name again.

Well now if i climb on to the roof i can see St Louis Arch, in fact if the bloody trees weren't in the way i could probably see it from kitchen window or my bedroom window.

We live near Fort Ligonier.




Erin :)

Well, as Apricot said, we live near Gettysburg (21 miles as the crow flies).

http://www.ios2003.com/photopages/030403_gettysburg/02_gettysburg_staffride79.JPG

But he failed to mention the other historical sites nearby.  Including:

James Buchanan's birthplace in Mercersburg, PA (the pyramid memorial stands in James Buchanan State Park west of Mercersburg, and the cabin was moved to the campus of Mercersburg Academy a number of years ago),

http://www.mind.net/dlmark/images/PPbuchanan04.jpg  http://www.mind.net/dlmark/images/PPbuchanan02.jpg

Chambersburg, the only Northern town burned by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War,

http://www.pathsofthecivilwar.com/Products/graphics/BOC-586w.jpg

and, of course, there's Shippensburg itself--second oldest town west of the Susquehanna.

http://www.galacticafanfic.com/flying/shippensburg_pa_110698.jpg

Shippensburg is the home of Widow Piper's Tavern, location of the first Cumberland County Court way back in the 1750's,

http://www.witf.org/temps/TV/Our%20Town/images/Historic%20courthouse%20circa%201735_jpg.jpg

and Pague & Fegan Hardware, fabled to be the oldest, continuously operating hardware store in Pennsylvania, and the one historical site that I don't have a picture for.

I totally love the area where you guys live, CNoize.....there's so much history out there....and the buildings are great!



Erin :)

Well, as Apricot said, we live near Gettysburg (21 miles as the crow flies).

http://www.ios2003.com/photopages/030403_gettysburg/02_gettysburg_staffride79.JPG

But he failed to mention the other historical sites nearby.  Including:

James Buchanan's birthplace in Mercersburg, PA (the pyramid memorial stands in James Buchanan State Park west of Mercersburg, and the cabin was moved to the campus of Mercersburg Academy a number of years ago),

http://www.mind.net/dlmark/images/PPbuchanan04.jpg http://www.mind.net/dlmark/images/PPbuchanan02.jpg

Chambersburg, the only Northern town burned by the Confederate Army during the American Civil War,

http://www.pathsofthecivilwar.com/Products/graphics/BOC-586w.jpg

and, of course, there's Shippensburg itself--second oldest town west of the Susquehanna.

http://www.galacticafanfic.com/flying/shippensburg_pa_110698.jpg

Shippensburg is the home of Widow Piper's Tavern, location of the first Cumberland County Court way back in the 1750's,

http://www.witf.org/temps/TV/Our%20Town/images/Historic%20courthouse%20circa%201735_jpg.jpg

and Pague & Fegan Hardware, fabled to be the oldest, continuously operating hardware store in Pennsylvania, and the one historical site that I don't have a picture for.



I used to live in Pennsylvania, I kind of miss being so near pieces of history and things such as that but I'm also kind of glad because it's all really haunted.  :(

what part of PA did you live?




Erin :)

Philadelphia.  :)

cool! I live closer to Pittsburgh...about 35 miles east of Pittsburgh.




Erin :)

cool! I live closer to Pittsburgh...about 35 miles east of Pittsburgh.




Erin :)


I remember visiting there when I was really little I used to call it "Pippsburgh" lol

I remember visiting there when I was really little I used to call it "Pippsburgh" lol



that's funny...alot of "Pittsburgian" tend to call it "Pixburg" LOLOLOL! ;D



Erin :)

that's funny...alot of "Pittsburgian" tend to call it "Pixburg" LOLOLOL! ;D



Erin :)


hehe do people there also pronounce the word 'attitude'  'at-tee-tude'? Just wondering because that's how my grandparents say it.  :)

I totally love the area where you guys live, CNoize.....there's so much history out there....and the buildings are great!



Erin :)


I know...I love the place.

And on that note, here's a picture of Pague & Fegan Hardware--back when it was called McPherson's Hardware.  I couldn't get my photo editor to crop, so it's a bit tiny.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a325/piguy314/pfhw.bmp

I used to live in Pennsylvania, I kind of miss being so near pieces of history and things such as that but I'm also kind of glad because it's all really haunted.  :(


I actually LIKE the haunted crap.. a friend and I are planning at some point to go to this insane asylum and spend a night.. however, that's out of state. But still.. I like hauntings! :D

hehe do people there also pronounce the word 'attitude'  'at-tee-tude'? Just wondering because that's how my grandparents say it.  :)




I'm not sure...I never really heard anyone pronounce it like that! LOL!



Erin :)

I actually LIKE the haunted crap.. a friend and I are planning at some point to go to this insane asylum and spend a night.. however, that's out of state. But still.. I like hauntings! :D



yes, haunted places are amazing to learn about! There are a few good sites out there that tell you all about the "haunted" places of PA...very interesting!



Erin :)

yes, haunted places are amazing to learn about! There are a few good sites out there that tell you all about the "haunted" places of PA...very interesting!



Erin :)


I like learning about haunted places too but at night I can't sleep lol. This one time I think we were at Gettysburgh and we were at some war place and my mom joked by saying "Is there a doctor in the house?!" after that she was automatically shoved into the mud and when she got up she was totally clean and dry. It was uber creepy.  :-\\

I like learning about haunted places too but at night I can't sleep lol. This one time I think we were at Gettysburgh and we were at some war place and my mom joked by saying "Is there a doctor in the house?!" after that she was automatically shoved into the mud and when she got up she was totally clean and dry. It was uber creepy.  :-\\



OMG...that is really creepy!  Yes, Gettysburg is well known for it's many ghosts!



Erin :)

I live near the Winchester Mystery House


Hello from fifty miles south.

I live in Steinbeck country, home of Cannery Row, Pebble Beach snobs, and the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary. I'd post pictures, but I can't get my photo editor to work right now. :P

Like Phil, most of the landmarks are in the smoke, but on a more local scale...

I'm about 10 miles from the Medway town of Rochester, where Charles Dickens had a large involvement (nice cathedral and castle too), and a few more miles in a different direction is Pluckley - supposedly the most haunted town in the UK...

And in the town next door (Dartford), there's the birthplace and childhood home of a certain Michael Jagger...
I go through Rochester on the train everytime I go to Margate which is about once a month or so. I love looking at the castle and cathedral from the train.

Well I live about 7 or 8 miles outside of Oxford and work at the Bodleian Library which was founded in 1502 so you could say I am surrounded by history everyday!
As to the actual town that I live in we have a huge power station as a landmark and a historic railway centre and that's about it !

I live near a church that's rather old. As with the house I'm living in.

There are historic sites around here, but nothing too spectacular (unless you're a tourist)

Not any that will be known internationally I guess.

Fairly near to where I live is Bradgate Park which is where Lady Jane Grey lived before she was queen.
Beacon Hill is very close.  There was a settlement there during the Bronze Age.
A restored steam train line runs at the back of my house (not literally it's behind the next street).  It's the only double track line still operational in Britain and has appeared in several films.

Well I live about 7 or 8 miles outside of Oxford and work at the Bodleian Library which was founded in 1502 so you could say I am surrounded by history everyday!
As to the actual town that I live in we have a huge power station as a landmark and a historic railway centre and that's about it !
http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/presentations/vanguard/18.9.1997/geoff/didcot.1.gifI believe close to you is a church where Agatha Christie is buried?

Winchester Mystery House,Hayes mansion,lots of missions

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/presentations/vanguard/18.9.1997/geoff/didcot.1.gifI believe close to you is a church where Agatha Christie is buried?


That just reminded me--I also live near Three Mile Island.

http://www.ohiocitizen.org/campaigns/electric/2004/ph_three_mile_island500.jpg

An ex-power station near me.
http://www.industcards.com/Battersea-lg.jpg
Located at Battersea.

I like learning about haunted places too but at night I can't sleep lol. This one time I think we were at Gettysburgh and we were at some war place and my mom joked by saying "Is there a doctor in the house?!" after that she was automatically shoved into the mud and when she got up she was totally clean and dry. It was uber creepy.  :-\\




Woah..that's crazy. Yeah, one of the reasons I like living in PA, is because of all the hauntings we have.

There is a college near me called "St. Vincents" they say that people have seen the ghosts of priests and monks walking in a graveyard, walking up steps, etc..

Jean Bonnet Tavern, which is actually on the way to where Apricot lives, in Bedford, Pa. They say that it's haunted as well. I plan on spending the night there one night, to see for myself.

Oh..another one that I can think of is Livermore, pa. I guess it's an underwater town...you can see the top of the church steeple poking out from under the water. They say there have been sightings there, as well.



That's only some of them...there are TONS more. I would love to one day take this list http://theshadowlands.net/places/pennsylvania.htm and visit each place. That'd be awesome. Ya hear that, Andrew!?! ROADTRIP!!! :D


~Beth

anyone live in Mullhulland county?Don Everly's inn burned down(he was trying to sell it,and it wasn't in business)

Hello from fifty miles south.

I live in Steinbeck country, home of Cannery Row, Pebble Beach snobs, and the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary. I'd post pictures, but I can't get my photo editor to work right now. :P


It sounds like you're also pretty close to "Bubba Gumps" restaurant.. I love that place!

http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/presentations/vanguard/18.9.1997/geoff/didcot.1.gifI believe close to you is a church where Agatha Christie is buried?
Wow I can't believe you found a picture of the power station in Didcot ! actually that's a dumb thing to say I guess there are loads of them out there I just can't imagine why anyone would want to take any........

Yes Agatha Christie is buried in a village just down the road.She lived in a town just a couple of miles from here for a while too called Wallingford, where I go to the dentist actually !

It sounds like you're also pretty close to "Bubba Gumps" restaurant.. I love that place!


Yup. Never eaten there as it is always packed, but my sister's friend was a line cook and he made one of their desserts for us. It was delicious.

I live near Hadrians Wall - (well when I'm up at my home in the North of England I do)
built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 122 as a frontier to keep the Scottish Picts out of England, it stretched from the West to the East coasts of England.

Not anything spectacular in my part of Ohio. Things like...
Indian burial mounds
Victorian houses
old cemeteries
Fort remnants
historical prison
underground railways

We have our fair share of steel mills and factories. I am on the boarder of PA. and WV. so we get pollution from all sides. Nice!  ::)

I live near Hadrians Wall - (well when I'm up at my home in the North of England I do)

Gosh! Two homes! You have servants as well...?!!

...built by the Roman Emperor Hadrian in AD 122 as a frontier to keep the Scottish Picts out of England, it stretched from the West to the East coasts of England.


Didn't work too bloody well, did it?!!

I live near a church that's rather old. As with the house I'm living in.

There are historic sites around here, but nothing too spectacular (unless you're a tourist)


Just curious as to your definition of "old".  I have know idea how recent or ancient things like this are in New Zealand.

Just curious as to your definition of "old".  I have know idea how recent or ancient things like this are in New Zealand.
"old" was a bit of an exaggeration. Maybe 80 years.

The city I live in is over 150 years old. Which is quite young compared to alot of cities around the world.

"old" was a bit of an exaggeration. Maybe 80 years.

The city I live in is over 150 years old. Which is quite young compared to alot of cities around the world.


I guess everyone's perception of how old is old (for buildings) depends on what is in your local area.  In Britain most towns will have at least one church that is several hundred years old which distorts our perception.

Of Course! L.E.S(Don't you dare call us LOHO) Manhattan, New York

My whole neighborhood is historical. It's where the immigrants first moved to(upon leaving Ellis Island) at the turn of the century. Most of the old tenements have been razed or burned down, but a few have managed to be saved. They were preserved and restored. They are now a part of the "Lower East Side Tenament Museum" I love that place!

Other sites are:

The Beautiful Brooklyn Bridge
The Harry Dujour Playhouse (Now a part of Henry St Settlement Arts Center)
The South Street Seaport
The Fulton Fish Market(smelly as heck, but an important part of history)

Just West of my neighborhood is:

Ground Zero, it used to be called the World Trade Center but now looks like a big empty wound.
The Woolworth Building (was once Ny's Tallest, until the Empire State came along)
The New York Stock Exchange (I think this place gives the prescription drug companies most of their business)

Gosh! Two homes! You have servants as well...?!!

Didn't work too bloody well, did it?!!


yeah it's been pretty much ruined to only several feet high over the many years, I think the original height was around 12ft.
Still I wouldn't like to have come face to face with those tough, burly Roman soldiers on sentry duty dotted along it at various points, although on thinking, perhaps that might have been fun  ;)

Err nah only one house - (up North)  I live in the staff accomodation at the school in West Sussex, a flat which was designed for 'existing' only, not living, mainly cos' it's bleedin' miniscule.  :( 

Yeah I live near Stonehenge and the Avebury Stones down here - well about 40 miles away anyways.

I live in Los Angeles. If anything here is over ten years old, they tear it down and replace it with something more stucco-y.... ::)

I live in Los Angeles. If anything here is over ten years old, they tear it down and replace it with something more stucco-y.... ::)


Almost like South London, but replaced with something more concrete monstrosity-ish...

Yeah I live near Stonehenge and the Avebury Stones down here - well about 40 miles away anyways.


I went there once a long time ago in my wilder days, at that time you could still walk right up to the
stones, in and around them, and touch them.  I hear they don't let you do that anymore. ???

Plymouth Hoe and the Mayflower Steps at the Barbican.  :)

I went there once a long time ago in my wilder days, at that time you could still walk right up to the
stones, in and around them, and touch them.  I hear they don't let you do that anymore. ???


I went there with my family when I was about 5.  Can't remember much though.

I went there once a long time ago in my wilder days, at that time you could still walk right up to the
stones, in and around them, and touch them.  I hear they don't let you do that anymore. ???


Yeah that's right - I went for the first time a few years ago and was gutted at not being able to get right up to them, visiting them was not the spiritual experience I expected,  for a start there's a bloody great motorway (Freeway) a few hundred yards away cut right into the lovely countryside   >:(   then you're cordoned off and ushered around the stones as if your a sheep being herded by a sheepdog.

The Summer Soltice people have it good though, they get to go and dance around them in the nude   ::)  with no restrictions whatsoever, except they can't climb on the stones.

Well if tourists didn't chip chunks out of them as souveniers and idiots cover them in graffiti then we would all still be able to walk round the stones.Thats human nature for you........... ::)

Well if tourists didn't chip chunks out of them as souveniers and idiots cover them in graffiti then we would all still be able to walk round the stones.Thats human nature for you........... ::)


..that's true, but there is an awful commercial vibe at the place now, you might as well be on a conveyor belt, still I get your drift.

I live near, John Hunt Morgan's house,he was a dashing confederate general 8)

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/lexington/buildings/hun.jpg

and Mary Todd Lincoln's house (Abe's wife), she eventually went :D

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/lexington/buildings/mtl.jpg

Lexington, KY

I live near, John Hunt Morgan's house,he was a dashing confederate general 8)

and Mary Todd Lincoln's house (Abe's wife), she eventually went :D



That sometimes happens when your husbands brains are splattered all over your gown.  :(

I live about 10km away from Fort Henry, which was constructed during the War of 1812 to protect the Royal Navy Dockyard

http://www2.potsdam.edu/smith20/fthaerial.JPG

It is now a National Historic Site of Canada and brings in tourists from all over North America to see the shows they put on each year :)

Do you live near any historical sites or landmarks?


No.

Yes I do, but which one shall I start with?

Do you live near any historical sites or landmarks?


No.


Nothing?  I thought Georgia would be rife would civil war sites.

Nothing?  I thought Georgia would be rife would civil war sites.
As in the song Marching Through Georgia?

I live about 3 miles from Philadelphia Pa. ;D

Nothing?  I thought Georgia would be rife would civil war sites.



Georgia does have civil war sites but I don't live near any of them.  That was the question. 

As in the song Marching Through Georgia?



Yeah, though that isn't a song old Georgians want to hear, though I like it.

Georgia does have civil war sites but I don't live near any of them.  That was the question. 


You aren't that far from Kenesaw Mountain, the name alone sends shivers up the spine of any baseball fanatic.

You aren't that far from Kenesaw Mountain, the name alone sends shivers up the spine of any baseball fanatic.



Yes I am pretty far from Kennesaw Mountain.....I live near Duluth.  That ain't a hop, skip and a jump away. 


And the name doesn't send shivers up *my* spine.  He was a commissioner....he banned the Black Sox.....that gets shivers?

Of course!

The second oldest public house in the world, the Bakers Arms is my local pub (watch out for the beams!).
It dates back to the mid 1400's, just goes to show, Empires may come and go, but a good boozer stays forever.

The actual city of Leicester was founded in AD 50 as Ratae Coritanorum and as such there are Roman walls and roads hanging around that are about 2000 years old, the most famous of these being Jewry Wall, which is the wall to the old Roman Bath house and doesn't actually have anything to do with the Jews in the city (what with them having been kicked out during the middle ages).

Many of the place names and older buildings around here were named or built by the Vikings as Leicester was also one of the five walled cities of Danelaw.

The tomb of Richard III is also in the cathedral, but his body isn't. It was thrown in to the river some time after his burial.

The Guildhall, Cathedral and Clock Tower are all of Historical significance and I dare say all of them are older than any of the existing Settlements in North America (which tells us a lot about the way History works).

The very first roundabout in the world was also built in Leicester... for which I can only apologize.

I don't know what historical landmarks I live near in Indianapolis, except for a house that one of the presidents lived in(I think, if I remember correctly).

Edit: Benjamin Harrison house, where he used to live. It's not too far from this library either(about 10-11 blocks away).

I think i've posted in here previously, but the nearest landmark to me is the Angel of the North. But of course, to anyone outside of the UK, I may as well be speaking turkish, because it isn't particularly historical.

Plenty of old castles and ruins nearby, though, but none worth mentioning in particular

I live about 3 miles from Philadelphia Pa. ;D


This is a broad reference, you should have mentioned some sites;

Indepedence Hall, The Liberty Bell, Betsy Ross House, Benjamin Franklin House and Grave,
Edgar Allen Poe House, The Mutter Museum, The Rodin Museum, Boat House Row and
The Philadelphia Museum Of Art were they just dedicated the Rocky Statue.

I don't live too far from Calvin Colledge's homestead. The general store where he was sworn in as Pres (by his father who was Justice of the Peace) is still there, too.




Cat

The city I live in is the birthplace of country music.  In July 1927 the Carter Family made the first country record here in Bristol, Tn.

The city I live in is the birthplace of country music.  In July 1927 the Carter Family made the first country record here in Bristol, Tn.


Bristol is also famous for something else, One of these years I will get to Bristol Motor Speedway
to watch a night race. 1/2 mile of pure excitement, Bristol is my favorite track on the NASCAR
circuit. I think I would watch bicycles race at Bristol.

Bristol is also famous for something else, One of these years I will get to Bristol Motor Speedway
to watch a night race. 1/2 mile of pure excitement, Bristol is my favorite track on the NASCAR
circuit. I think I would watch bicycles race at Bristol.


It's quite an event...We go from a city of 40,000 to 140,000 people during a race weekend. 

My daughter's pre-school class took a trip to BMS and she got to ride around the track...in a school bus!!  LOL!!

It's quite an event...We go from a city of 40,000 to 140,000 people during a race weekend. 

My daughter's pre-school class took a trip to BMS and she got to ride around the track...in a school bus!!  LOL!!


Must have been some experience.  :)

Put 42 more school buses on the track and it would be quite a spectacle.  ;D

I used to live one block away from Yogi Berra's house. A landmark for some.

I live outside one of the world's most treasured cities, San Francisco (and well, if you are thinking Oakland, I guess you can think of it that way, too  ;D )

Probably the Golden Gate and the Oakland Bay Bridge are the two most famous landmarks within 45 miles of me. Other landmarks for my area are:

Mt. Diablo State Park (our local mountain)
Black Diamond Mines (a coal mine)
John Muir Historical Site (Martinez, CA)
UC Berkeley Campus (Berkeley, CA)

I live near James Buchanan's retirement estate (Wheatland)  Lancaster is home to Major General John Fulton Reynolds.  He was the first high ranking officer to meet his maker at Gettysburg.  Lancaster PA was also the capitol of the U.S. for a few days.

In a nearby town known as Perth, they have a statue of Ian Millar and Big Ben.  I've never been to Perth, but I should visit someday.  It's like 20 minutes or so away

http://bigben.ca/photos/400-Unveiled.jpg

Ian Millar is a retired Equestrian and Big Ben was his horse.  From 1972-1999, he won more than 40 Grand Prix titles worldwide, and still holds the North American record for most Grand Prix wins

I live near James Buchanan's retirement estate (Wheatland)  Lancaster is home to Major General John Fulton Reynolds.  He was the first high ranking officer to meet his maker at Gettysburg.  Lancaster PA was also the capitol of the U.S. for a few days.



oh wow, you live near Lancaster, Pa? We go there all the time. I live in pa...but closer to Pittsburgh.

I live IN Lancaster PA!!!

I live IN Lancaster PA!!!



no WAY!!! that's awesome! we go there at LEAST once a year....but sometimes more. AND, I go with my sister sometimes up to Shippensburg...she has friends there. WOW....you don't live too far from me...cool!  8)

Do you live in the country...like near the Amish?

8) Shiloh..We go there alot..I am totally into The Cival War...AND of course..Graceland..I do live in Elvis land..lol...Its really a cool place to visit..

I live in the city.  But I grew up around the Amish.  I know where Shippensburg is.  You live in Pittsburg.  I was born in Sewickley.

I live in the city.  But I grew up around the Amish.  I know where Shippensburg is.  You live in Pittsburg.  I was born in Sewickley.



I actually live about 45 minutes from Pittsburgh...closer to Greensburg.

Greensburg is more towards the center of the state?

Greensburg is more towards the center of the state?



No, it's SE of Pittsburgh and Pittsburgh is in Western Pennsylvania.

Oh okay.  I don't get out that far too often.  (My Amish buggy can't handle the open road...LOL)

Oh okay.  I don't get out that far too often.  (My Amish buggy can't handle the open road...LOL)



I love the drive on Rt. 30...from Ligonier...and out to Lancaster...so very scenic!

Yes, it is.  My I suggest that the next time you visit Amish Country you take a drive past New Holland, Intercourse more towards Chester County . . . it's lovely.

Yes, it is.  My I suggest that the next time you visit Amish Country you take a drive past New Holland, Intercourse more towards Chester County . . . it's lovely.



is that where "Shady Maple" restaurant is near?  If so..we've been out that way...very lovely.

After you get done having lunch at Shady Maple keep driving East.  (Beyond the tourist traps)

After you get done having lunch at Shady Maple keep driving East.  (Beyond the tourist traps)



I will have to do that next time I am out that way. ;)

8) Shiloh..We go there alot..I am totally into The Cival War...AND of course..Graceland..I do live in Elvis land..lol...Its really a cool place to visit..



I'm into it, too.  Just finished reading the Memoirs of US Grant.  Went to Gettysburg over the summer, but have been planning a trip to Petersburg/Appomatox since finding two ancestors who were there.  This stuff is great.

Gettysburg is my "stomping grounds".  I go every two months.  I have not seen Shiloh, I really need to get down that way.  :)

Gettysburg is my "stomping grounds".  I go every two months.  I have not seen Shiloh, I really need to get down that way.  :)


Gettysburg this past summer was my first and I loved it, and do plan to go back again.  My greatgreats on may mothers fathers side were slaves in the Petersburg/Richmond area so I would like to go see that.  A great uncle from my mother mothers side was from New York and enlisted and was at Hatchers Run and Appomatox.  A great uncle who was a Petersburg(area) slave joined the union army at Petersburg and was at Appomatox.  It adds a whole new dimension to it.

I'm glad you liked Gettysburg.  It adds another dimension when you have family members that fought in an area.  The emotional connection to that area is unbelievable. :)

Gettysburg is my "stomping grounds".  I go every two months.  I have not seen Shiloh, I really need to get down that way.  :)
8) Shiloh is great...I like to go during the week..If you have ever seen the most haunted on the travel channell , its in there, there is this one pond...you can just FEEL the ghosts..its eerie and surreal

At Gettysburg there are a few areas like that.  Devils Den and the Valley of Death.

At Gettysburg there are a few areas like that.  Devils Den and the Valley of Death.
  :o I saw Gettysburg on the Travel Channell too...I would love to go there...I am supersensative to things of the supernatural

At Gettysburg there are a few areas like that.  Devils Den and the Valley of Death.


Devils Den is eerie....I felt I should lie down and die, or get up and run all at the same time, which I guess is the story surrounding that place.

I learned while traveling through Isleton that the radio towers over there are some of the tallest in the world! I drove right past them!  :)

When people are at Devil's Den I have seen then jump from boulder to boulder.  I can't do that.  People became trapped in the large cracks and I know that.  The Valley of Death, you can feel a bit of the misery.

http://www.archimage.co.uk/Images/Construction/004Construction.jpg

About three miles from my home is Wembley Stadium, of which the old famous ground has been demolished and this monstrosity stands in its place.