Which Historic Sites Have You Been To?

[Tony]

Various Civil War Battlefields
Various Southern Plantations
Fort Sumpter (sp?), (Where the first shot of the civil war was fired)
The Alamo
The BattleShip Texas
The Tower Of London
Hampton Court Palace
Stone Henge
Dover Castle
Westminster Abby

I think thats it.


Which historical sites have you been to?

Which one was your favorite?

 

[St_Hereticus]

Which historical sites have you been to?

Which one was your favorite?

I've been to the Vicksburg, Miss. battlefield, the Alamo, various other forts and such. Also a few silver-mining ghost towns. But my favorite "historical" site is the Luther Burbank Home and Gardens, here in the Saintly city of Roses.

 

[jimlintott]

I'm a sucker for historical sites. I stop at little road side placards whenever I'm travelling.

Some outstanding (very memorable) ones are :
Tower of London
Westminster Abbey
Glastonbury Abbey
Fort Henry - Kingston On.
The Forum - Montreal

I'll bet those Civil war sites are very interesting. You can bet if I have the chance I'll check them out.

 

[Patricio Elicer]

Tower of London, Westminster Abbey (yeah!,... I was standing right on top of Isaac Newton's and Charles Darwin's remains), and Stonehenge are the most important in my case.

 

[Kilted_Canuck]

Gettysburg
Stirling Castle
Edinburgh Castle
Colloden
Ft. Walsh
Ft. George
Kennedy Space Center
Edinburgh's Royal Mile
Fredricksburg
Ft. Sumpter

Those are the big ones. I think Stirling Castle was my favourite because we had a private party in it, and it was the most influential castle in Scotland.


I love history, and everywhere I go I visit all the historic sites I can. I would probably have a couple pages if I listed all the smaller sites I've been too.

 

[Luke T.]

I have been to more than I can recount. Just off the top of my head:

Tower of London. London bridge. Avignon (home of the Popes for a while). Some Roman ruins in France, Greece and Italy. Fort Ticonderoga. Yorktown. Williamsburg. I've even participated in a Civil War reenactment in Virginia. One of my subordinates in the navy was a big player in reenactments and invited me along to one. Imagine my surprise, being from Connecticut originally, upon learning I would be fighting on the Confederate side! It was a blast.

My biggest regret is that I never got around to going to Vicksburg in all the time I lived in Mississippi. I so wanted to visit there.

 

[Soapy Sam]

Easier in UK / Europe, where we tend to live in the middle of one.
One of the best for presentation though would have to be Gettysburg. Full marks to the people there.

My preference would be for the prehistoric sites- with which the British Isles are liberally strewn. Some of them, - often solitary megaliths- are in quite stunning locations. The atmosphere, even for a sceptical cynic, is quite palpable.

Recently I visited St. Blane's Church on the Island of Bute. There are megaliths a mile or so away, silent in a spruce forest. The church is early Celtic, it's location a sheltered hollow with dramatic views of Arran. It was raided by Vikings at least twice.

Out in the Clyde Estuary, like a ghost from the future, a nuclear submarine was cruising past. The longships are still out there.
We are a historical site.

 

[jj]

Lessee.

Culloden

Cromdale (unfortunately one doesn't make up for the other )

Oh, and also Appamatox, Gettysburg, Ft. Necessity (there's a story there), DC, most of the London sites, Edinburg Castle, Stirling, Doune, all 4 remains of the Great Abbeys, The Mounds of Ohio, the MTA, that church in Berlin (the bombed out one), St. Andrews old course, castle, abbey, the shops in Pitlochry (just kidding, just kidding), Bamburgh Castle, Alnwich Castle, the Orchy Forest, aerial tour of the Normandy Beaches thanks to Brit Air, (my brain hurts, that last battle north of Edinburg), the Ford museum, ....

 

[jj]

My preference would be for the prehistoric sites- with which the British Isles are liberally strewn. Some of them, - often solitary megaliths- are in quite stunning locations. The atmosphere, even for a sceptical cynic, is quite palpable.

Hear, hear. The scenery about some of those sites is just stunning, isn't it?

And there are places like Glen Douglas, with the green, the reservoir that adds to the scenery, and then you go down the west side, and WHOA...

 

[De_Bunk]

Hey..i lived in London...

I been to 98% of them.....

( The other 2% are spread between Wales and Scotland )


Where ever you go in the UK...there is some famous historical site..

Wanna see what the Romans did to the UK...there must be 1,000 historical, visible, touchable sites in the UK....

DB

 

[jj]

Hey..i lived in London...

I been to 98% of them.....

( The other 2% are spread between Wales and Scotland )


Where ever you go in the UK...there is some famous historical site..

Wanna see what the Romans did to the UK...there must be 1,000 historical, visible, touchable sites in the UK....

DB

Err, you mean "the other 2% are in England, the rest are in Wales, Scotland, Man and the Channel Islands", eh?



(serious aside, can't be 1000, I've been to that many historical sites, I think, and I've hardly been systematic about it... Methinks you underestimate... )

(in best Monty Python voice) AND NOW WE SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!

 

[Soapy Sam]

jj- Prestonpans? Stirling Bridge? Bannockburn? Murrayfield?

We have so many. And we lost most of em.

(Specially at Murrayfield).

 

[Doubt]

To many to count. Many of them obscure.

My father was a history teacher. All of his entry fees were a tax right off. Every time we went on vacation, we would get to see at least one battlefield, fort, or ship. Often many of them. One trip to Massachusetts was all historical sites.

I have been to forts which nobody knows about. Fort Frederica in Georgia was one of the obscure ones. The fort was never attacked, but the British garrison there stopped the Spanish from moving into Georgia in the 1700’s. The "fort" walls are about 5 feet high.

 

[tim]

Stonehenge. These days you can only view the stones from a distance. When I was a kid you could wander amongst them. I got to do this again a few years ago. It was magic.
Malta - the prehistoric temples.
Any Roman remains.
Well, anything old, actually!

 

[Soapy Sam]

jj- Are you sure you mean Glen Douglas? I only know the one (there may be more- there are about twenty "Ben Mores), between Loch Long and Loch Lomond. A single track road goes through. Big military weapons base (mostly underground) there- supposedly got nukes in.
No reservoir though. "

Plenty to choose from that fit your description- and thankfully, still quiet most of the time.

 

[zakur]

Here's what I can remember. Lots more I can't recall right now.

Uffington White Horse, Dragon Hill, Waylands Smithy (and all that other cool stuff near Uffington, including The Ridgeway), West Wycombe Village, Warwick Castle, Cambridge University, Tower Bridge, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey (and lots of other places in and around London), La Alhambra, La Sagrada Familia, Monasterio de las Huelgas, Cathedral of Seville including the Tomb of Christopher Columbus (purportedly), Palacio Real (and lots of other places in Spain), Serpent Mound, Miamisburg Mound (lots of Indian mounds in Ohio), Castillo de San Marcos and Old St. Augustine, St. Louis Arch, Alcatraz, Golden Gate Bridge, the Presidio (and other places in and around San Francisco), Mt. Rushmore, Colonial Williamsburg, Monticello, Washington's birth place, Mt. Vernon (and lots of other places in an around D.C.), Gettysburg and several other Civil War battlefields...

This is bringing back memories of old family vacations...

 

[Eirik]

I've been to a few...

In the US:
The Old North Church
Fanuiel Hall (Boston)
U.S.S. Constitution
San Buenaventura mission in Ventura, CA
San Luis Obispo mission
Mount Rushmore

In Europe:
The original site of the Althing in Iceland
The meeting house for the Reykjavik summit
The burial site of Shakesphere
Blarney Castle (and I kissed the stone )
Westminster Abby
Tower Bridge
Tower of London
Eiffel Tower
Notre Dam
Franz Kafka's house in Prauge
Koln Cathedral
A Concentration camp in Austria (I beleive Gusen)
as a cultural event, the Operomogau (sp?) Passion play

I can recall several other major historical or cultural sites that I've been to, but can't pull their names out of my head.

 

[jj]

jj- Prestonpans? Stirling Bridge? Bannockburn? Murrayfield?

We have so many. And we lost most of em.

(Specially at Murrayfield).

WHACK! Ow! Hit my head! Yeah. Bannockburn. That's what I was thinking of. Also been to Stirling, of course.

Your point is, of course, very true. (sigh)

 

[pgwenthold]

I've been to a few...

In the US:
The Old North Church
Fanuiel Hall (Boston)
U.S.S. Constitution

A couple of years ago, my wife and did a whirlwind tour of New England and New France. So we started in Boston and did all the obvious ones there (add Bunker Hill), worked our way to Montreal where we stayed in the old town and saw the fort, among other things, then moved to Quebec City and spent a lot of time in the old part of the city there. That was about the end of our historical tour as we then dropped through Maine before going back to Boston.

Been to the palaces in Prague and Warsaw, and a polish castle.

Stone Mountain (Atlanta)
Alamo (yawn)

and of course

Battle of Tippecanoe Battleground

 

[jj]

jj- Are you sure you mean Glen Douglas? I only know the one (there may be more- there are about twenty "Ben Mores), between Loch Long and Loch Lomond. A single track road goes through. Big military weapons base (mostly underground) there- supposedly got nukes in.
No reservoir though. "

Plenty to choose from that fit your description- and thankfully, still quiet most of the time.

Well, I do mean Glen Douglas. There was certainly a reservoir there a while ago, about 1990, on the east end, just after you climb up the 'b' road through all those switchbacks off the gnarled motorway along Loch Lomond... (We took it as a short cut because traffic along the Loch was backed up due to construction. We could see the construction about 5 miles ahead, and it was wall to wall unhappy Vauxhall drivers from here to there. So we turned right, and went UP.)

And then farther on, that base. Yikes! Look straight ahead, keep moving, and hope the car doesn't break down! I have no idea what's there, except there are just a FEW antennae there, and it seems like a lot of power going into a small building...