Virginia's Presidential Homes This week, we are featuring two of Virginia's lovely Presidential homes. Eight former Presidents have hailed from this powerful...
Virginia’s Presidential Homes
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The Hidden Southeast
Mystery Photo: Confederate Laboratory
Laboratory Cotton Mill Lincolnton, North Carolina One of the Carolinas’ most colorfully-conceived textile mill names can be found on a sharp bend in...
Mystery Photo: High Road Through the Alps
Südbahn Railway Wiener Alps, Austria They say necessity is the mother of invention. Well, if you're the emperor of the Habsburg Empire -- centered on...
Mystery Photo: Landsford Canal
Landsford Canal State Park Chester County, South Carolina The surest sign of spring in Chester County? The Rocky Shoals Spider Lilies in bloom, as these rare...
Mystery Photo: Creekside
Creekside, circa 1840 Morganton, North Carolina Contrary to popular belief (and logic), plantation agriculture existed wherever there was fertile land...
Travel Guide: Morganton, North Carolina
Morganton, perched in North Carolina's far western Piedmont, has served since the 1840's as the state's "western Capital" -- a necessity for a state almost...
Exploring Hatcher Gardens
Hatcher Gardens - Spartanburg, SC As you enter the Hatcher Garden and Woodland Preserve, you are greeted by the zen sound of a bubbling creek as it...
Mystery Photo: Civil War Double-take
Old Henderson County Courthouse Hendersonville, North Carolina It's the only courthouse in the two Carolinas that memorializes participants from both...
Hog Heaven
Hogback Mountain, as seen from Jug Factory Road Spartanburg / Greenville Counties, South Carolina From wild flowers in bloom to the Palmetto Trail to...
Lying in State
Tomb of Francis Marion, c. 1893 Belle Isle Plantation, South Carolina The Swamp Fox's Enduring Legacy . . . with his tomb set beneath a canopy of...