Date Visited: July 6, 2021 Oklahoma City is the Capital of the State of Oklahoma, but most people just call it Oklahoma and then you kind of guess with the context if the person is talking about the city or … Continue reading →
Date Visited: July 9th, 2021 Jackson, Mississippi is an interesting place. It’s history is mixed up with the racial controversy of a struggle of black versus white, but the funny thing about that is today both of those groups are … Continue reading →
Date Visted: July 2, 2021 We arrived in Austin and went directly to the capital building with our bags. Which kind of surprised the troopers because we had so many bags with us. I saw three confederate statues on the … Continue reading →
Date Visited: May 23, 2020 There have been humans in Baton Rouge for a long time, archaeological digs suggest maybe as far back as 12,000 BC. The first white men to come to the area were French explorers and they … Continue reading →
Cheyenne was born in 1867 when the Union Pacific passed through Wyoming with the transcontinental railroad. Growing rapidly, the territorial government made Cheyenne the territory seat in 1869. When Cheyenne became the territory seat, it also went down in history … Continue reading →
Visited: July 7, 2019 Louisiana and Montana are very far apart from each other but most of what is today Montana became part of the United States in 1803 as … Continue reading →
Idaho became a state on July 3rd, 1890. Idaho has peculiar history on how it became a state and even more so on how Boise became it’s capitol. US history in Idaho starts with Lewis and Clark passing through the … Continue reading →
Date Visited: January 2, 2019 Coming up from Texas we were running from a very cold weather front. Our goal was to stay the night in Albuquerque, but that did not happen. We were able to stave off the cold … Continue reading →
As the name implies, the name of the state of Indiana came from the many Native American tribes that once inhabited the area. Originally formed as territory lands for Native Americans that were relocated from the east, new treaties pushed … Continue reading →
Michigan got it’s start on July 13th, 1787, when the Second Continental Congress created the Northwest Territory. Almost instantly there were lots of land disputes and in 1803 Ohio was formed and in 1805 Michigan became it’s own territory. Michigan … Continue reading →
