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Some of the members might live there. Any seen the sights, The Old North Church, The Liberty Bell, any of the early history of the nation?

I don’t live there but have seen both of those. Pretty neat but the people inhabiting Philadelphia and Boston are not of the same stock as those from that time. It’s sad what the original colonies have become, those places are just historical curiosities now.

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I worked all over the NE and never had the time to see any of the old historical sites. Fly in, do the job, fly out to the next one..... that was my schedule.

One day I spent an hour in the cemetery at Portsmouth, NH. I found it odd to see headstones with 1600 dates on them, until I realized that part of the country was settled during that time period. It's rare to see an early 1800 headstone in the cemeteries where I live.

Are those old cemeteries noisy? I would imagine those patriots are spinning in their graves in astonishment over what the places they fought to free have become!
Jerry

I've been to Williamsburg and Jamestown many times and Yorktown too. Then when you reflect that William and Mary is full of sodomite Marxist leftists it makes you want to vomit.

Live in Portsmouth NH, for the last 20 years. Born in MA, college at U Maine Orono, lived in Boston for a while before I moving to a better place - NH. Seen just about all of it. Coolest was being on deck Old Ironsides in the Harbor. Something about that just made my small hairs stand on end. Like you could smell the gunpowder. There’s a lot to see. All of New England isn’t completely ruined, yet.

For a couple of years back in the late 80's I lived in Utica, NY and then on an old farm south of it. Something happened pretty much everywhere you go in New England, some massacre or battle or George Washington slept there or something. The old graveyard right across from our house had headstones dating back to the mid-1700's, several soldiers who died in the Civil War were buried there. The spring on our property used to be a watering stop for stage coaches in the 1800's.

Can't really compare all of the cities but for a good historical visit Boston was pretty neat. Spent four days there on a business trip some 14 years ago. Took a walking tour that started at the graveyard where Ben Franklin and several contemporaries are buried, then wound through several old neighborhoods, went into the Old North Church and past the USS Constitution and finished up just before Bunker Hill. Also visited MIT and Harvard, walked around the commons and saw that bas relief of the 54th Massachussetts. Went back and took a tour of the Constitution and that was really neat. Drove past Fenway Park every day going from the motel north of town to the business conferences in Boston proper. I'm sure there is a lot of urban nastiness around there but we didn't see much if any of it on that tour.

I would love to spend a lot of time in the eastern part of the US, visiting all of the points of historical importance.....but, that is too far behind “enemy lines”! memtb

For many years I worked in downtown Philadelphia within a block or two of the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Once had an office that overlooked Carpenters Hall. I passed by those historic sites so often they became routine.

Been to all the battle fields from Gettysburg to Norfolk, the liberty bell and the hall...even Under the Lincoln memorial !

I lived in Salem in the 1980s, and I took my kids back a few years ago to see Boston. I highly recommend a visit to the Constitution. The Navy keeps the ship in mint condition, and the young men and women chosen to serve aboard her are well versed on the ship's history and significance. The old north church and Paul Revere's home and workshop are also interesting. Lexington, Concord and Bunker Hill are very different today from what they were in the the colonial era. You would probably learn more about the history of these places from a day at an Appleseed Shoot. I can also highly recommend a trip to Salem to see the Peabody Museum, the Customs House, Chestnut Street, and the museum house tours. During the early federal period the largest single source of revenue for the federal government came through the customs house at Salem. The sailing captains from Salem opened the trade to China. They built their mansions on Chestnut Street which is widely regarded as the most beautiful street in America, and they contributed various oddities they collected in the Orient to the Peabody.

If you have time to drive out from the Boston area try Plymouth Plantation and Old Sturbridge Village. These are especially good for children. The reenactors can teach them a great deal about the Pilgrims and about life in a 1830s farming village.

Williamsburg is beautiful. I've enjoyed my visits there, but it is more like a Disney theme park than historical preservation. It's a great place for wives to gather little colonial decorations to hang around the house.

Gettysburg is enlightening. Until I went there, I didn't really understand the extent to which the men who survived the battle saw this place as sacred ground. Every unit North and South must have placed a memorial on the lines where they fought. I have never seen this on any other battle field.

Visited Kings Mountain and Cowpens on way home from work in "The Patriot”.

Never seen any of the big ones.


Live in the area from The Whiskey Rebellion.
The first of my known ancestors was a farmer in the exact area.
The sale bill from his farm shows, corn, wheat, barley, hops,
And a still. Being an immigrant from Germany, I think he
might have made a bit of hooch,

I have traveled east to see some of the historical places. The thing that I was most surprised at is how close all of them are to each other.

Being raised in the west we are used to vast distances so come to expect that in other places as well.

But then you remember that all travel was by foot or horse so distance would be a problem.

Even that being the case many early explorers and frontier people traveled vast distances over periods of years to go to new areas. Such as going to Cali. or Oregon might entail

4 or 5 years before the got to the destination.

Amazing how the birthplace,s of the american revolution have turned into Liberal Socialist Democrat cesspools....

Me an' kaywoody brushed Paul Revere's horse after his midnight ride.

Keep going, I can' it some times.

What about Bostin harbor?

Can't really see myself living outside the original 13 Colonies. I have lived up and down the East Coast and there's nowhere I'd rather be.

Let's see

Fort Necessity----French & Indian War-----Built by Washington after Braddock's loss to the French & Indian allies. Near Uniontown PA. Also Ft Pitt.

Valley Forge, Brandy Wine, Independence Hall, Liberty Bell.

Maryland's original copy of the Constitution.

Fort Niagara-----War of 1812. It's in Canada----not far from the Falls. Then to a cemetery in Maumee OH to visit a grave of an Uncle who died in the Battle of Maumee in 1812.

Gettysburg-----Had 3 Uncles fight there. One is buried not far from where Lincoln gave the address.

Then the economy cashed in the early 70's & I moved west. Been in Colorado ever since.

Bob


Forgot about the Whiskey Rebellion. I had relatives hole up in the Old Stone Church----not far from my house. It had walls 4' thick. They still had services there every Sunday. Washington sent the army in to collect the whiskey tax & stop the rebellion.

It would be difficult to get me on the east bank of the Mississippi now.