In a swamp in rural Arkansas you’ll find a point that literally impacts life and property in several midwestern states.  Today the site sits is a part of a state park that tells the significance of that place…

There are about 530 million acres in the Louisiana Purchase that the United State acquired from France in 1803.  The process of surveying that ground is an interesting story you probably have never heard…

Certain jobs have their own vocabulary, which is understandable to those who work there but gibberish to everyone else.  This is one such place…

In the northwest corner of the state of Washington you will find Olympic National Park.  It’s beautiful scenery encompasses most of the Olympic peninsula of the state.  On the west side, between the national park and the ocean you’ll find a city called Forks…

Thomas Jefferson helped write the Declaration of Independence, but he wasn’t happy with the final product. Why was Jefferson grinding his teeth and not talking to his fellow delegates?

Thomas Jefferson took an important role in writing our declaration of independence, but most people don’t know he wasn’t even supposed to be in Philadelphia for meeting that drafted the document…

It’s a sate park like none other – a place where your entrance fee allows you the chance to find something far more valuable that what you paid to get in…and many think is a fun way to spend a few hours or a few days with family…

The Arkansas state license plate has a picture of a diamond on it.  That is mostly due to a famous crater that was full of the precious stones – a place with quite a past and present…

When you think of state where you can find volcanoes you probably aren’t thinking of this spot.  However, it’s this place that started a diamond rush in the early 20th century…

It remains the worth disaster in U.S. maritime history.  Add to the tragedy the fact that many of the dead were young soldiers being transported back to their homes in April 1865 at the end of the Civil War.