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The McLean House on the left, looking west down the road U.S. Grant travelled as he came into the village to meet Robert E. Lee. The home of Wilmer McLean was the site of Grant and Lee's meeting on April 9, 1865. The house was dismantled in the late 19th century with intent to move it to Washington, D.C., but the effort failed. Most of the house of was lost, but the bricks around the front door and a few other architectural pieces are original to the house when it was reconstrcuted in 1949. Established in 1935, the Appomattox Court House National Historical Park preserves the site of the surrender of Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant in April 1865. Appomattox, Virginia. (Nathanael Miller, 01 Feb. 2018)
Albus the Crab and I's first travel photo together! North Beach on the Mokapu Peninsula. Kaneohe Marine Base, Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 15 April 2018)
The Clement Oak has been alive since the late 16th century. It was also the site of the landing of the first aerial flight in America. President George Washington watched as Jean-Pierre Blanchard took off in a balloon from Philadelphia. Blanchard carried a letter from President Washington to be delivered to whomever owned the property where the balloon landed, thus making this the first delivery of air mail as well. Deptford, New Jersey. (Nathanael Miller, 10 May 2018)
Mount Rainier National Park. Mount Rainier the highest peak of the Cascade volcanoes, rising 14,411 feet above sea level. It is also considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in North America. Mount Rainier National Park Washington. (5 Aug. 2020; Nathanael Miller)
Mammoth Cave is the longest known cave system in the world with over 400 miles of tunnels mapped. It was carved over over millions of years by the underground Styx and Echo rivers, which empty into the Green River. It was first discovered 6,000 years ago by Native Americans and has been integral to Kentucky history ever since. (Nathanael Miller, 12 Dec. 2017)
The LST Building, 1942. Built as an exact replica of a Landing Ship, Tank's (LST) well deck, the building was a joint venture between the Army, Navy, and British forces to debug and perfect the design of the LSTs. The interior was all wood, but constructed and painted to mimic an actual ship. It was later used as a classroom and today is derelict, but owned by the Patton Museum. It is the only building of its kind in the world. Fort Knox, Kentucky. (Nathanael Miller, 14 Dec. 2017)
Mount Rainier's southern face from Paradise. The volcano continues to rise for more than 9,000 feet to the summit. The Paradise area, located at an elevation of 5,400 feet, is one of the most famous and visited areas of Mount Rainier National Park. Mount Rainier the highest peak of the Cascade volcanoes, rising 14,411 feet above sea level. It is also considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in North America. Mount Rainier National Park Washington. (5 Aug. 2020; Nathanael Miller)
Key West Cemetery. Established in 1847 after an 1846 hurricane washed most of the bodies out of the previous cemetery on the south side of the island near present-day Higgs Beach. Central to the military section is the statue and monument to the dead from the 1898 explosion of USS Maine (ACR 1) in Havana Harbor. (Nathanael Miller, 25 July 2017)
The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum was founded in 1975. It is the only musuem dedicated primarily to the armaments carried by the Air Force, and boasts a collection of over 30 aircraft (U.S. and a few foreign), as well as hundreds of examples of munitions used by aerial warfare through history. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. (Nathanael Miller. 29 Dec. 2018)
Albus the Crab checks out a map of Williams while having his morning coffee at the Pine Country Restaurant. Williams, Arizona, was founded in 1881 and incorporated in 1901. It's named for the famous trapper, scout, and mountain man, William "Old Bill" Williams. Williams was the last town on old Route 66 (the "mother road") by Interstate 40 when I-40 was completed in 1984. Today Williams is known as the "Gateway to the Grand Canyon." Williams, Arizona. (Nathanael Miller, 19 Oct. 2018)
Mount Baker second-most thermally active crater in the Cascades after Mount Saint Helens. Rising 10, 781 feet high, Mount Baker is seen 72 miles from Port Ludlow. Port Ludlow, Washington. (Nathanael Miller. 12 Jan. 2019)
Julia Davis Park occupies land donated by Thomas Jefferson Davis in 1907 in honor of his late wife, Julia. The land used to be the Davis orchard. The park features a cancer survivor plaza with kinetic kites, a larger-than-life statue of Abraham Lincoln, and a sizable rose garden. Boise, Idaho. (Nathanael Miller, 28 August 2018)
Spanning the Colorado River between Nevada and Arizona, Hoover Dam creates Lake Meade and is one of the key electrical power and irrigation facilities in the southwestern U.S. Completed in 1936, the dam is 726 feet high and holds back about 10 trillion gallons of water. The Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge was completed in 2010 to eliminate the traffic bottleneck on the dam, and is the second-highest bridge in the U.S. Hoover Dam, Nevada-Arizona. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Oct. 2018)
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Protected cruiser USS Olympia (C 6) on display at the Independence Seaport Museum. Olympia was commissioned in 1895 and reactivated several times, finally decommissioned in 1922. Most famously she was Commodore Dewey's flagship during the 1898 Battle of Manila Bay. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Nathanael Miller, 9 May 2018)
The historic pools that were built by Franklin Roosevelt when he developed the Roosevelt Institute at Warm Springs. Today a fountain bubbles up water from the original springs. FDR came to Warm Springs in 1924 seeking therapy in the natural warm springs as he worked to recover from polio. His "Little White House" was built in 1932 and he used it as a retreat while president, and died in the house in April 1945. Warm Springs, Georgia. (Nathanael Miller, 17 March 2018)
Nyberg Park features scrap-metal sculptures by local artist Ken Nyberg, including one honoring his daughter and fellow Vining native, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg. Vining, Minnesota. (Nathanael Miller, 17 Aug. 2018)
Mount Rainier National Park. Mount Rainier the highest peak of the Cascade volcanoes, rising 14,411 feet above sea level. It is also considered one of the most dangerous volcanoes in North America. Mount Rainier National Park Washington. (5 Aug. 2020; Nathanael Miller)
The statue of Athena was finally unveiled in the Nashville Parthenon in 1990 and gilded in 2002. Created by Alan LeQuire, at nearly 42 feet high it's the tallest the indoor statue in the the Western Hemisphere. Centennial Park was the site of the 1897 Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition. Today the full-scale replica of the ancient Athenian Parthenon and man-made Lake Watauga are the only structures left from the exposition. Nashville, Tennessee. (Nathanael Miller, 16 May 2018)
The Quarterdeck flags and well deck fragment from USS Ponce (LPD 15) with the wreck of the USS Cairo. USS Cairo was sunk by a torpedo (mine) in the Yazoo River in Dec. 1862, and is the first ship to be sunk by such a mine. The capture of Vicksburg by Union forces July 4, 1863, opened the Mississippi River back up to Union navigation. The capture of the city split the Confederacy in half, and, coming at the same time as the Union victory at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, makred the stragetic turning point of the war and the beginning of the fall of the South. Ponce was in commission from 1971 - 2017. Vicksburg, Mississippi. (Nathanael Miller, 7 April 2018)
Eglin Air Force Base seen after taking off from Destin-Fort Walton Beach Airport. Niceville, Florida. (9 July 2019; Nathanael Miller)
Convair B-36J Peacemaker. Founded in 1923, the museum is housed in four hangars on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and has more than 360 aircraft in its collection. (Nathanael Miller, 3 Dec. 2017)
The pali (cliffs) of the Ko'olau Range. Kualoa Regional Park. Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 21 April 2018)
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Punchbowl Crater. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 23 April 2018)
Albus the Crab visits the historic pools that were built by Franklin Roosevelt when he developed the Roosevelt Institute at Warm Springs. Today a fountain bubbles up water from the original springs. FDR came to Warm Springs in 1924 seeking therapy in the natural warm springs as he worked to recover from polio. His "Little White House" was built in 1932 and he used it as a retreat while president, and died in the house in April 1945. Warm Springs, Georgia. (Nathanael Miller, 17 March 2018)
The Olympic Mountains rise over the Olympic Peninsula. Port Ludlow, Washington. (Nathanael Miller. 12 Jan. 2019)
Known to the Hawaiians as Le'ahi, Diamond Head is a 300,000 year old tuff cone formed from an explosive erutpion. The crater is 3,520 feet in diameter and summits at 761 feet. The summit is the site of a lost heiau (ancient Hawaiian temple of other sacred site), and was used for coastal defense by the U.S. Army through the first half of the 20th century. Honolulu, Hawaii. (Nathanael Miller. 18 April 2018)
C&O Canal Lock 33. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal operated from 1831 until 1924 along the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland. It was just over 184 miles long and required 74 locks due to the elevation change of 605 feet. Today the towpath and abandoned locks are maintained by the National Park Service. Knoxville, Maryland. (Nathanael Miller, 11 Jan. 2018)
Restored to its 1850s appearance, this is the farmhouse of Dr. Robert Kennedy. It was rented for three months in 1859 by John Brown (under the alias Isaac Smith, a prospector) and used to plan and launch the Harpers Ferry Raid. Samples Manor, Maryland. (Nathanael Miller, 11 Jan. 2018)
Boeing B-29 Superfortress "Bocks Car," which dropped the "Fat Man" atomic bomb on Nagaski in August 1945. Founded in 1923, the museum is housed in four hangars on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and has more than 360 aircraft in its collection. (Nathanael Miller, 3 Dec. 2017)
Launched in 1797, Constitution entered service ("commsioned" in today's terminology) in 1798. She is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, and is, along with the World War II carrier USS Enterprise (CV 6), one of the two most decorated and successful ships in Navy history. Today she is permanently berthed as a living Navy museum at the Boston Navy Yard. The ship has existed in four centuries (18th, 19th, 20th, 21st), and served under 44 of the 45 Presidents of the United States. Charlestown, Massachusetts. (Nathanael Miller, 21 July 2018)
The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum was founded in 1975. It is the only musuem dedicated primarily to the armaments carried by the Air Force, and boasts a collection of over 30 aircraft (U.S. and a few foreign), as well as hundreds of examples of munitions used by aerial warfare through history. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. (Nathanael Miller. 29 Dec. 2018)
The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum was founded in 1975. It is the only musuem dedicated primarily to the armaments carried by the Air Force, and boasts a collection of over 30 aircraft (U.S. and a few foreign), as well as hundreds of examples of munitions used by aerial warfare through history. Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. (Nathanael Miller. 29 Dec. 2018)
I lived in Tallahassee from 1992 - 1997. I interned at the Museum of Florida History in 1994, and then got my first post-FSU job there from 1994 - 1995 when budget cuts slashed a number of state jobs. The museum was opened in 1977 and is housed in the R. A. Gray Building behind the state capitol. One of my early jobs was cataloguing and recording the condition of several Civil War flags before sending them for conservation, the most rare being the 5th Florida regimental flag. Other exhibits I regularly cleaned, such as the case for the builder's model of the battleship USS Florida and citrus packing house. I had a minor part assisting in the construction of the diorama of Florida's first people. Tallahassee, Florida. (Nathanael Miller, 05 Nov. 2018)
This is a rock. But, it's a very important rock in the life of Abraham Lincoln. This was the site of the Gentry homne and store, where Lincoln worked occaisonally as a teenager, and was paid by Gentry to take a flatboat down to New Orleans. Lincoln first saw a slave auction on that trip, and credited it for the start of his eventual outright abolitionism. Established in 1932 adjacent to the land where the Lincoln farm stood, the Lincoln State Park preserves land that was central to the Little Pigeon Creek community Lincoln grew up in. Lincoln City, Indiana. (Nathanael Miller, 16 Dec. 2017)
The Muskegon South Pier Light, or Muskegon Pier Light, is a conical steel tower 48 feet high using the original, historic lantern room from the previous 1870 lighthouse. It marks the channel entrance taking ships from Lake Michigan into Muskegon Lake. Muskegon, Michigan. (Nathanael Miller, 18 Dec. 2017)
The Prohibition-era Coast Guard Cutter USCGC McLane (W 146) is on displat at the USS Silversides Museum. The McLane is currently undergoing repainting and renovations. The World War II Gato-class submarine USS Silversides (SS 236), on display in Muskegon, Michigan. (Nathanael Miller, 18 Dec. 2017)