Towns you live at with Historical significance

[Topcat]

I've always been interested in seeing places that are enriched in historical past of either the Civil War, or the Revolutionary war. Also WWII.

We have the Presidio out here near the Golden Gate.
There are bunkers built high up upon the hills that overlook the Ocean near the Golden Gate looking out for enemy warships during WWII. There were huge Cannons there to protect our coastline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vur9S7Mdf5k

Stories and pictures of what happened there where you live are always interesting to hear about.

Someday I would like to return to some of those areas back East that made us the nation we are today.   

[AARuFAST]

Maryland has The Constellation, Fort McHenry, Fort Armstead,  historic events, Civil war enactments, Virginia civil war events, has Williamsburg a operating colony.
New England, Maine , Boston,etc,

[Jesus H Chrysler]

I've been to SF twice and I was overwhelmed with all the historical significance I was surrounded with.  The Presidio and the fortified positions you mentioned, the history of Alcatraz, the remnants of the great quake etc.

I live in MA and am surrounded with so much history it's easy to become numb to it.  My GF works right outside Hanscom AFB and drives right past the revolutionary fields every day.  Hell, Leominster MA is home to Johnny Appleseed and it's neighbor Sterling MA is where Mary's Little Lamb was from.  There are places to go hiking where you walk past the foundations of homes the original settlers used and abandoned before there was even a USA.  My buddy found a drop tank from a P-51 in the middle of the woods out by the Quabbin reservoir years ago.  Turns out that was a practice area for new pilots during WWII.

Every year I go to Carlisle I'm tempted to take a side trip to Gettysburg.  Maybe this will be the year.  Anyone else up for an extra curricular field trip?

[ChallengerHK]

I'm about an hour from Manassas (Bull Run) and Fredericksburg (Chancellorsville). About two hours from Richmond, and Williamsburg, Jamestown and Yorktown.

[dougs bs23]

Annapolis Md on the chesapeake bay was trading point for slaves, also londontown was one of the first settlements south of MA.  90 minutes to Gettysburg or Antietum battlefields Phillys an easy drive as well as many other historical sites in the region

[06Daytona]

Puerto Rico is full of historical areas. El Morro is a giant fort built in the 1600s (I think) and in use right up until WWII. There are huge gun placements a few hundred feet from prisons used in the 1700s. There's Ramey AFB that was used as a B24 and B25 base during and after WWII and Crashboat beach where the PT boats left from in case of a crash. You can still see some of the mechanism for the emergency cables and the concrete hangars are still being used at the base. There's also El Yeunqe(spelling) which is the only tropical rain forest in the US National Park system. It's not so much historical as just cool to see, and it's where my Cuda is getting all it's new bits and pieces.

[go-fish]

Puerto Rico is full of historical areas. El Morro is a giant fort built in the 1600s (I think) and in use right up until WWII. There are huge gun placements a few hundred feet from prisons used in the 1700s. There's Ramey AFB that was used as a B24 and B25 base during and after WWII and Crashboat beach where the PT boats left from in case of a crash. You can still see some of the mechanism for the emergency cables and the concrete hangars are still being used at the base. There's also El Yeunqe(spelling) which is the only tropical rain forest in the US National Park system. It's not so much historical as just cool to see, and it's where my Cuda is getting all it's new bits and pieces.

I used to live in Ceiba and Fajardo, Puerto Rico. I loved going hiking in El Yeunque. I was stationed at Roosevelt Roads Navy Base and it was rumored that the Crown Jewels of England were held on a ship (WWII) that was drydocked ot the base to keep them safe in case the Nazi's invaded Britain.

Now I live here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronado,_California Anything that I could type can be summed up on it's wiki page. One thing that isn't on the wiki page is that Coronado is home to the World Champion Long Boarder!

[Gumby]

My home town has one of the original Pony Express stations. It even has a buffalo coat worn by "Buffalo" Bill Cody inside. A couple miles down the road, Buffalo Bill Cody's ranch sits. (in North Platte NE) As far as the Pony Express goes, Could you possibly IMAGINE going flat out at a gallup, in uncharted territory, at night, with nothing but the moon and stars to guide you, and if it was cloudy or pitch black or winter? - these guys were absolutely heros or completely nuts. Get hurt or wounded or attacked by Indians?  It wasn't like they had a nice smooth road or trail to follow. They were better men than me. Those guys were real men. NE also won the National Championship college football title in 94 and 95 (please, no haters) (lol, you didn't specify a year - so I thought I'd throw that last bit in) 

[MOPAR FANATIC]

  Historic Fort Snelling,check it out at:

http://www.historicfortsnelling.org/

[Cooter]

Appomattox..Nuf said.

[Challenger III]

Yakima, WA was originally located where the current town of Union Gap is. In 1885 the railroad came in and the Yakima City residents and businesses moved to be near the railroad. They actually moved their buildings on logs, pulled by horses. These businesses stayed open to customers as they were being moved.

Then, around 100 years later, Mt St. Helens decided to act up: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/ABPub/2010/05/14/2011868419.jpg

                                                                                                   http://volcanoes.usgs.gov/ash/images/32923351-040_large.jpg

[Jamie]

About a half mile from my shop we had the battle of cooches bridge , Newark Delaware. First time stars and stripes were flown in battle! I think the only battle on Delaware soil in the revolution. We also have fort delaware about 20 minutes away. Prison for enemy soldiers.You do not have to roam far around here to run into something of historical significance.

[The Cuda Guy]

I live in Honolulu, stationed at Peal Harbor, work across the street from the Airzona Memorial.  Lots of history here.  Anyone want to come visit?

Don

[ChallengerHK]

Love to, Don. Can you get me an Air Force jump seat? 

[Topcat]

I live in Honolulu, stationed at Peal Harbor, work across the street from the Airzona Memorial.  Lots of history here.  Anyone want to come visit?

Don

Great place to be.

Been there before,
I had hairs standing straight out of my neck about to cry. I could envision the day.