Category Archives: a Interest Historic

Wyatt Earp House, Tombstone, Arizona

Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an Old West lawman and gambler in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and a deputy marshal in Tombstone. He worked in a wide variety of trades throughout his life and took part in the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys. He’s Read More

Amelia Earhart Birthplace, Atchison, Kansas

Amelia Mary Earhart (/ˈɛərhɑːrt/, born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author.[1][Note 1] Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.[3][Note 2] She set many other records,[2] wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.[5] Born in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart developed Read More

Jonas Salk Childhood Home, Apartment Complex, Bronx, New York

Jonas Edward Salk (/sɔːlk/; October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995) was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended the City College of New York and New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after Read More

Governor Warner Mansion, Farmington, Michigan

Governor Warner Mansion. Home to the Governor of Michigan from 1905 to 1911. Born in Hickling, Nottinghamshire, England, Warner spent most of his life in Michigan. Warner was orphaned at three months of age and adopted by a family in Farmington. He attended the  Michigan Agricultural College  (now Michigan State University). As a Farmington businessman Read More

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence. He served as the third President of the United States (1801–1809). In 1768, Jefferson began constructing his primary residence Monticello (Italian for “Little Mountain”) on a hilltop overlooking his 5,000-acre plantation near Charlottesville, Read More

The Original Stroh Brewery & Stroh Family Home, Detroit, Michigan

The original Stroh brewery at right, with the Stroh family home in foreground. Circa 1864.The Stroh family began brewing beer in a family-owned inn during the 18th century in Kirn, Germany. In 1849, during the German Revolution, Bernhard Stroh (1822-1882), who had learned the brewing trade from his father, emigrated to the United States. Bernhard Read More

Roosevelt Campobello Cottage, Campobello Island, Canada

Roosevelt Campobello Cottage The summer retreat of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt and their family. It is located on the southern tip of Campobello Island in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, and is connected to the mainland by the Roosevelt Memorial Bridge, at Lubec, Maine in the United States. Here in August 1921, 39-year-old Read More

Meadow Brook Hall, Rochester Hills, Michigan

Meadow Brook Hall is a Tudor revival style mansion located at 480 South Adams Road in Rochester Hills, Michigan. It was built between 1926 and 1929 by Matilda Dodge Wilson (the widow of auto pioneer John Francis Dodge) and her second husband, lumber broker Alfred G. Wilson. In 1957, the mansion and the surrounding property and buildings were donated to the State Read More

Martin Luther King’s Birth Home, Atlanta, Georgia

Martin Luther King‘s Birth Home is located at 501 Auburn Avenue in the Sweet Auburn historic district. Built in 1895, it sits about a block east of Ebenezer Baptist Church. King’s maternal grandparents, Reverend Adam Daniel (A.D.) Williams, who was pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, and his wife, Jennie Williams, bought the house for Read More