Historic Daniel Boone Home and Village
>> Missouri Sites We had another beautiful day here in the St. Louis area and we headed off on a day trip to see the Historic Daniel Boone Home and…
Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site, New Madrid, MO (2019)
>> Missouri Sites Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site is located in New Madrid, MO down in the boot heel area of Missouri. This is a 15 room house that was built…
Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site, IL (Jun, 2019)
>> Illinois sites I have had the pleasure of visiting New Salem since I was in 5th grade and that is a long time ago. lol We were camped up…
Clayville Historic Site, IL (Jun, 2019)
>> Illinois sites We visited Clayville Historic Site while camped at Jim Edgar Pather Creek State Park. This is a former roadside hamlet from 1824 to the 1950s. Located near…
Sandy Creek Covered Bridge State Historic Site (Nov, 2018)
>> Missouri sites We like to visit Sandy Creek Covered Bridge a few times of the year. Especially when the fall colors are full. This year we visited a little…
Pierre Menard Home State Historic Site, IL (Oct, 2018)
>> Illinois sites We visited while out in Illinois enjoying the fall colors on a country drive. This is located in Elis Grove, IL. It contains a museum which was…
Fort Kaskaskia State Historic Site, IL (Oct, 2018)
>> Illinois sites While on a short local road trip, we stopped at the a few forts in Illinois. Fort Kaskaskia is a park like settings with information boards and…
Fort de Chartres State Historic Site, IL (Oct 2018)
>> Illinois sites We took a small local road trip to Illinois to visit a few State Historic Sites. Fort De Chartres was quite an unexpected trip for us. We…
Old Fort Niagara State Historic Site, NY (Sep, 2016)
We stopped at Old Fort Niagara during our fall 2016 Niagara Falls road trip. This was an awesome trip for us as we added Lake Ontario as our final Great…
Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, PA (May, 2016)
On our spring 2016 trip to Philadephia we visited the EasternState Penitentiary. We spent considerable time here and need to return again to see the parts we missed. This was…