West Point: Grand Tour of Historic Waterways Part VI
Accepting cash only, we all dug through our pockets, wallets, bottom of my purse, inside the car, to find enough money to take a two-hour tour of West Point.
Historical Sewing and Time Travels
Tag: Adirondack Mountains
Saratoga Battlefield: Grand Tour of Historic Waterways Part V
British General John Burgoyne took advantage of the 17th century French trade route from Canada, to arrive at Saratoga to fight the Continental Army.
Fort William Henry: Grand Tour of Historic Waterways Part II
Visiting the location of the French and Indian War’s infamous siege and massacre, immortalized in James Fennimore Cooper’s , The Last of the Mohicans.
Fort Ticonderoga: Grand Tour of Historic Waterways Tour Part I
Built on land that juts into Lake Champlain, the Mohawks called the land upon which the fort sits Ticonderoga, meaning a place between the great waters.
Our Theodore Roosevelt Adirondack Train Ride
Famous for enjoying time in the wilds, Theodore Roosevelt was vacationing in Vermont when he heard that President McKinley had been shot.
