Favorite 'old timey' place to visit....

[Mr. 16 gauge]

I've been to a lot of battle fields, forts, restored villiages, ect.

What is your favorite 'historical place of interest' to visit?

I love historic fort Michilamackinac (near Mackinaw City, MI)....used during the French and Indian & revolutionary war, and famous for being captured during Pontiac's conspiracy. The fort on Mackinaw Island is interesting as well.

I also find the Henry Ford museum in Detroit interesting as well.....lots of 'old timey' items, from cars to farm machinery to firearms, toys, trains, .......tons to see!

I also enjoy touring the battlefield at Gettysburg as well; I always seem to find something new when I go there.

[Adam Helmer]

Mr. 16 gauge,

My all time favorite place to visit is Fort Ticonderoga. The last time I visited, I drove a mile or two South and drove up to Fort Defiance; The British gun emplacements that caused Ticonderoga to be abandoned in 1777. Despite subordinates' advice to fortify that strategic hill, General Gates declined to post a company or two on the heights.

I have been to Gettysburg and on my last visit rode a big horse over the Wheatfield and by Devil's Den. I like to go to far Northern NH, up by the Connecticut Lakes, and walk the land that was the first seceeded piece of the US in history. In the early 1800s, Northern NH seceeded from the US and formed the Republic of Indian Stream. There was a disagreement over Canadian infringment and lack of NH support, so the locals formed an independent nation for about 10 years and then rejoined NH and the US.

Adam

[Lilred]

I love goin to Jamestown & Williamsburg and all the civil war battlefields. I am perty lucky in that respect, as I dont live but about an hour 1/2 from almost every battlefield here in VA. (I live smack in the middle of the state.)

One of my favorites tho is not state run. Pamplin Park in Petersburg is amazing. It's a livin history park which is on an old farm that was on the front lines of the siege of Petersburg. It's not but 2 miles from Petersburg national battlefield, so you get a 2 for one. It's an all dayer...but it is a wonderful place to visit.
My personal fave...they shoot alot of cannon there
They also have civil war soldier camp for the kids where they are civil war soldiers (complete with gun, uniform, barracks, mess hall, haversacks & they learn to make makin their own tools and the like)...which is a week long. They have overnight camps too.

It's also the "national museum of the civil war soldier". TONS of artifacts, clothes and such.

[Dan Morris]

Loving museums, I try to get as much time in as I can. Really, I prefer the kinda obscure ones. Out here, you have old Forts and Mining ones. Up where I hunt is an old Wells Fargo Way station...restored...looked a lot better before it was!!!!
Dan

[Adam Helmer]

Dan Morris,

If you ever get East, there is a lovely museum at Bennington, VT. It costs about $5 to get in and see the uniforms, arms, equippage, etc., from the Battle.

At Fort Ticonderoga, it costs $10 to tour the Fort and to see the extensive museum within the stoneworks. I have never seen so many original muzzleloaders and cannon of every size on site.

Also, nearby Fort Ti is Fort Edward and other historic sites. I cannot think of a better way to spend a few mid-October Indian Summer days than in that area or Northern NH.

Adam

[Mr. 16 gauge]

I have never seen so many original muzzleloaders and cannon of every size on site.

Not even at Gettysburg?