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On our way to St. Louis we stopped off at Vincennes. The town is one of the oldest in the Ohio Valley, founded in 1732 by French military officer François-Marie Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes. It was established as a French trading post along the Wabash River, it served as a strategic location for trade and
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Our journey from Charlottesville to Rockfish Gap, and then along the 105-mile-long Skyline Drive to Front Royal, was not just a scenic drive. It was a journey through history, a road that was a product of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. So the road itself is a piece of history. The Harry F Byrd
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From Philadelphia, we headed on down to Jamestown and Williamsburg. I completed my PhD at William & Mary in Williamsburg and even worked as an interpreter for a summer at Colonial Williamsburg, but it had been a long time since I had been back. I was impressed by the interpretation in the museums in Jamestown,
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