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Blue Ridge Parkway

Stanley Abbott
  • Type: Person

Stanley Abbott was the lead designer of the Blue Ridge Parkway. His vision of an environmentally sensitive design plan that preserved the cultural history of the route, guided the creation of a parkway that remains one of the most significant examples of landscape architecture in the country.

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Saddle Rock Trail
  • Type: Place

The Saddle Rock Trail is the most popular hiking trail at Scotts Bluff National Monument. The trail leads 1.6 miles from the Scotts Bluff National Monument Visitor Center to the summit of Scotts Bluff. It is a 435 foot ascent featuring some of the best views in the state of Nebraska.

Reconstruction Era National Historical Park

The Knights of Labor: Strikes of 1885 and 1886
  • Type: Article

In the decades after the Civil War during Reconstruction, the United States began to rapidly industrialize. Beginning in the late 1860s, laborers – many of them Civil War veterans - began to organize labor unions. One of the most prominent unions that emerged during this time was the Knights of Labor, founded in 1869 in Philadelphia. In 1885, members of the Knights of Labor went out on strike against railroad financier Jay Gould and won.

Grand Canyon National Park

North Kaibab Trail
  • Type: Place

North Kaibab Trail is the least visited and most difficult of the major inner canyon trails. The trail is challenging for day hikers as well as rim-to-rim hikers. As of October 17, 2024, North Kaibab TRAILHEAD water has been shut off for the winter. Always carry a way to filter or treat creek water, in the event the water stations at Manzanita and Cottonwood Campground are not working.

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney
  • Type: Person

Signer of the US Constitution, veteran of the American Revolution, and Federalist presidential candidate, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney provided the young nation long and dedicated public service. A southern planter, he also worked to protect the interests of slaveholders in the young republic.

John Rutledge
  • Type: Person

John Rutledge, lawyer, politician, and jurist, notably led South Carolina as her longest war-time governor during the American Revolution. Rutledge was one of four South Carolinian delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and helped defend the interests of the southern slave-holding elite.

Fort Stanwix National Monument

Henry Bakeman
  • Type: Person

Henry Bakeman enlisted in April 1781, after British and Mohawk troops had destroyed his home village of Stone Arabia in October 1780. Involved first in carrying packages from one Patriot fort to another, resulting in “many skirmishes with the Indiana & Tories,” by late 1782 Bakeman found himself involved in what would be the last engagement of the Revolutionary War. Disaster awaited them. Bakeman’s story was well-documented through his pension record in 1834.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Samuel Downer Jr.
  • Type: Person

Boston manufacturer Samuel Downer, Jr. participated in the antislavery movement as a member of the Free Soil party and the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area

Georges Island
  • Type: Place

Located seven miles from downtown Boston, this 53-acre island is home to Fort Warren, a National Historic Landmark. Although now owned and operated by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Georges Island once provided a strategic location for defending the port of Boston.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Joshua Giddings Dodge
  • Type: Person

An abolitionist and businessman, Joshua Giddings Dodge served on the Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Rensalaer Barker
  • Type: Person

While working as a housewright, Rensalaer Barker participated as a member of the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Richard Holmes
  • Type: Person

Boston businessman Richard Holmes served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Boston African American National Historic Site

Richard Hildreth
  • Type: Person

Lawyer, writer, and historian, Richard Hildreth served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.

Blue Ridge Parkway

Haw Creek Valley Overlook
  • Type: Place

A beautiful view into the Haw Creek Valley and the mountains beyond. Pull over, let the stress of city life slip away and take a deep breath of mountain air.

Bryce Canyon National Park

Shuttle Stop 7: Sunset Campground Southbound
  • Type: Place

Shuttle Stop located on the southbound side of the main road near Sunset Campground.

Dinosaur National Monument

Plug Hat Trail
  • Type: Place

Looking for easy-to-access views of Dinosaur's scenic canyons? The Plug Hat Trail is paved, pet-friendly, and wheelchair accessible. Enjoy informative signs and benches at scenic spots along the way.

Timpanogos Cave National Monument

Along the Way #16
  • Type: Place

Bryce Canyon National Park

Bryce Life Zones wayside
  • Type: Place

Here at Bryce, the elevation ranges from 9,100 feet (2,778 m) at Rainbow Point to 6,600 feet (2,012 m) at the canyon bottoms. The accompanying wide range of temperatures and precipitation creates three distinctive climatic or life zones—Mixed Conifer (highest elevation), Ponderosa Pine (mid-elevation), and Pinyon/Juniper (lowest elevation).

Bryce Canyon National Park

Mossy Cave Trailhead Wayside
  • Type: Place

This streamside walk leads to a spring-formed alcove that fills with summer moss and winter ice. At one time, water only flowed through Water Canyon after summer storms and spring snowmelt. After settlers completed an irrigation canal in 1892, water was diverted from the plateau above, steeply eroding these fragile canyon walls and feeding a waterfall that regularly freezes in winter.

Boston African American National Historic Site

John B. Gibbs
  • Type: Person

Boston temperance advocate and businessman John B. Gibbs served on the 1850 Boston Vigilance Committee.