Colonial Life
These handmade candles, essential for lighting, were often made by dipping wicks into melted animal fat.
What are tallow candles?
The Civil War began in 1861 when Confederate forces fired on this fort in South Carolina.
What is Fort Sumter?
This Massachusetts town is infamous for its 1692 witch trials.
What is Salem?
This Virginia town was the home of Thomas Jefferson and the site of his famous estate, Monticello.
What is Charlottesville?
This quirky landmark in Virginia is made up of thousands of weird, giant granite boulders piled together in a nearly perfect circular formation.
What is Natural Bridge?
This important document signed in 1620 laid the foundation for self-government in the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War was fought in Maryland in 1862.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Located in Savannah, Georgia, this historic cemetery is home to tales of spirits, including a “grinning” statue.
What is Bonaventure Cemetery?
This New Jersey city is the birthplace of Frank Sinatra and is located just across the river from Manhattan.
What is Hoboken?
In this Vermont town, visitors can see a replica of the "World's Largest Paperweight" made entirely from glass.
What is Middlebury?
Colonial schoolchildren practiced writing using a wooden board covered in wax, known as this.
What is a hornbook?
This Confederate general earned his nickname by standing firm at the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is "Stonewall" Jackson?
This Revolutionary War fort in New York is rumored to echo with phantom footsteps and ghostly soldiers.
What is Fort Ticonderoga?
This coastal Massachusetts town was the site of the first permanent English settlement in New England in 1620.
What is Plymouth?
Located in the Pine Barrens, this cryptid is said to be a flying, horse-like creature with glowing red eyes.
What is the Jersey Devil?
This labor-intensive crop became the backbone of Virginia's economy and was often traded like currency.
What is tobacco?
This Union general led the famous "March to the Sea," devastating much of Georgia in 1864.
Who is William Sherman?
This eerie, triangular region in Massachusetts is rumored to be a hotbed of paranormal activity.
What is the Bridgewater Triangle?
Future President Andrew Jackson grew up on a small farm here.
What is Waxhaw?
This eerie New Jersey site is the location of a mysterious "whistling" tunnel that has intrigued visitors with its strange acoustics and unexplained sounds.
What is Clinton Road?
Colonial children often played with these simple toys made of string and wood, still seen today on playgrounds.
What are yo-yos or whirligigs?
This major Confederate prison in Georgia was notorious for its overcrowding and harsh conditions.
What is Andersonville?
This historic inn in Rhode Island, built in 1763, is said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman searching for her lover lost at sea.
What is White Horse Tavern?
This Connecticut town is the birthplace of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
What is Litchfield?
In Maine, you'll find this: a bizarre patch of land covered in sand dunes due to glacial erosion, despite being far from any coastline.
What is the Desert of Maine?