Historical things near your house.

[InnerBrat]

Do you really want me to get into the history of London, or can we jsut assume the Europeans win on this one?

[Colonel Olrik]

Do you really want me to get into the history of London, or can we jsut assume the Europeans win on this one?

[Frank Hipper]

Do you really want me to get into the history of London, or can we jsut assume the Europeans win on this one?

Lon-don?
Hist-o-ry?
Stop with the crazy talk, people will think you're crazy!

[Crix Dorius]

The Teutoburger Forest...
Where the Germans has kicked Romans ass's back over the Rhine in the Varusbattle...


The Sloopesteene (Sloopestones)...
An old Teuton grave where druids have made there rituals...

[Dalton]

First and foremost, New York City.

Closer to me we have...

Belmont Racetrack (One leg of the Triple Crown)
Roosevelt Field (Charles Lindbergh took off from here on his flight across the Atlantic; now a fairly large shopping mall)
Amityville (Famous for a haunted house featured in a movie, though I think it's a wee bit farther than 15 miles)
Cold Spring Harbor (research facility, famous for DNA research as I recall)

[J]

The Old Mill - Or should I say the ruins of the Old Mill. It was the first mill (I think) built in Toronto when it was settled way back when.

Montgomery's Inn - A bed & breakfast inn of sorts for travellers in Toronto's pioneer days.

Casa Loma - A castle in the city. It's actually a mansion built in the style of a castle by some by some rich guy about 100 years ago.

[TrailerParkJawa]

The Old Mill - Or should I say the ruins of the Old Mill. It was the first mill (I think) built in Toronto when it was settled way back when.

Montgomery's Inn - A bed & breakfast inn of sorts for travellers in Toronto's pioneer days.

Casa Loma - A castle in the city. It's actually a mansion built in the style of a castle by some by some rich guy about 100 years ago.

The first flour mill in California is near here at the mouth of Niles Canyon. Its just a historical marker though. Nothing is left, except for an aqueduct that brought water to the mill.

[Lord Sander]

That I know of,
1. A 12th century church, built on a sandberg that, legend tells, was created by a giant losing the sand she was carrying in her apron.
2. A castle ruin dating from at least the 10th century, but possibly was a Roman watchtower originally.
3. A few 17th century windmills.

Unfortunately the Germans destroyed most of Rotterdam's historic stuff when they bombed the city.

[LadyTevar]

1) New River. Oddly enough, one of the oldest rivers in the world, as well as one of the few that flow North. Orginally emptied into the Hudson Bay, rerouted by glaciers, yet still flows through most of the pre-glacial bed. Indians used it as a game trail, following the Eastern Buffalo (Also called Mountain or Mississippi, and extinct) and several Burial Mounds have been found along its length, especially after it joined the Gauley River to form the Kanawha and meandered along the Kanawha Valley.

2) New River Gorge. The "grand Canyon of the East' though with more forest cover. 1000+ deep to the river, containing some of the best rapids in the East (Class IV-VI, higher in high water). Dramatic views from the top, with New River Sandstone (far harder than normal sandstone) rock faces that make great climbing.

3) New River Gorge Bridge. Longest Single Arch bridge in the world, stretching a full mile across the New River. The single arch supports 9 of the 11 risers under the road bed, and the top of the arch is 836ft(approx 287m) above the river. (Tall enough for two Statues of Liberty to balance on top of the Washington Monument... with a few feet to spare.)

4) Salt mines and dredges. Natural brine and salt sand along the New and Kanawha Rivers, which developed into the first industry in West Virginia during the 1700's. Also several several natural gas vents, just find the creeks, ridges, or hollows named 'Fire' or 'Burning'.

5) Hawks Nest State Park. A small park, built by the CCC, based on a natural outcropping over the New River. Offers a fantastic view of the river, dammed in 1933 so the river could be diverted through a 3/4mile tunnel through the silicon bones of Gauley Mountain. The diverted river flows into turbines, providing enough electric power to run 3 towns as well as the metal alloy plant it was built to run. Also the site of one of America's worst Industrial Disasters, as the unprotected black and migrant works breathed in the silicon dust and died of lung damage from the microscopic particles.

6) West Virginia's State Capitol. This 5th building, as the others burnt down at various times, was based on plans by Thomas Jefferson for the US Capitol. Built one mile from the previous (burnt) Capitol, the new building is a U-shape, with a gold-leafed dome rising by the Kanawha Riverside. Built in the 1920's of sandstone blocks, the interior of Italian marble, with godsheads over the engraved brass entrances and detailed gilded carvings of native plants lining the ceiling frescos, the Capitol is a marvel of Art Deco and Classical design.

All of these are within an hour's drive of my house. Then we get into the REAL Treasures... Like Cranberry Glades, French Creek Game Farm, CanaanValley, Seneca Rocks and Caverns... I could go on and on and on.

I love my State!

[Saurencaerthai]

Let's put it this way: When you're in Lexington, you're practically standing on historical stuff. TONS of colonial houses, many with significance. I pass the green where the first battle of the American Revolutionary war was fought every day on the way to school.

[CmdrWilkens]

About the only thing within 15 miles of my house is FT Meade home to NSA and the National Cryptology Museum. Now not much further out from that (say about 30mi) and you have all of DC, Baltimore, and Annapolis MD two out of three being capitals of the US, two being major ports and one the sailing caital of the US.

[Nathan F]

Many many old pre-1900 buildings. A site of a Civil War battlefield. The Tennessee river. Where I live, you have to go a long ways to find anything historical or of interest.

[Darth Gojira]

A single radiation dump in the nearby park. Sadly, no monsters have appeared in the area.

[Peregrin Toker]

I live near Roskilde, which is home to one of Denmark's biggest cathedrals.

[InnerBrat]

The Tower of London

[Kelly Antilles]

within 100 miles of my house are about 50 or so Civil War battlefields and probably 20+ sites where ghosts supposedly haunt. As for anything of interest to me? Nope, not a thing.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

Any items of historical interest within 15 miles of your house as the crow flies?

1. Dirigible hanger at Moffet Field. Its a huge structure and I think the only one in Northern California. It dates back to the 1930's. Its about 12-13 miles to the southwest. ( see my avatar )

2. The first gas station in Alameda county is just down the street. Its a car repair business now. It dates back to the 20's or 30's I believe.

3. There are several buildings from the late 1800's in a small business district down the street. One is a former Bank of America. There is a giant old style vault inside.

4. Mission San Jose is only a few miles away. Its been restored since the original mission was destroyed by an earthquake.

5. The transcontinental railroad came through Niles canyon which is just a few miles away.

Two old pueblo sites. A couple of churches from the early to middle 1800s (where I live, it's around old Spanish land-grants, so there's a number of buildings from the 1800s in the area), and Route 66.

[Dalton]

What's Route 66 famous for? I've heard it quite a bit in song.

[Agent Fisher]

The USS Hornet, a carrier, and the USS Pamipnito( i am not sure if i spelled it right), a sub, are in the San Fransico bay. I have spent a night on both vessels.

[Lord Pounder]

The Titanic was built less than a mile from my house. C.S. Lewis was born and raised 15 minutes from my house. The Birth place of the worlds best football/soccer player George Best. Go to http://www.eastbelfast.com for all the info of my part of Belfast.

[GrandMasterTerwynn]

What's Route 66 famous for? I've heard it quite a bit in song.

Back in the days before the construction of the modern interstate highway system, there were a number of smaller roads scattered throughout the nation that kinda did the same thing. Among the most notable was Route 66, which ran from coast-to-coast, and existed during the time when automobiles were considered as stylish status symbols (which is why it's so well-known).

It is notable for being a historical piece of Americana, if one defines Americana in terms of gas stations, drive-ins, fast food, garish billboards, neon and mechanical advertising signs and the like. :)

Most of the original Route 66 no longer exists, except in bits and pieces. (Most of it was taken out when I-40 (which mostly follows the same path) was constructed.) However, there are some fairly long and intact bits of it scattered through the country. One of the longer bits of it runs through New Mexico, where you can see some of the old inns and businesses that sprang up along the highway back in the forties and fifties.

[Dalton]

Thanks, Terwynn. Sounds damn interesting.

[LadyTevar]

What's Route 66 famous for? I've heard it quite a bit in song.

Back in the days before the construction of the modern interstate highway system, there were a number of smaller roads scattered throughout the nation that kinda did the same thing. Among the most notable was Route 66, which ran from coast-to-coast, and existed during the time when automobiles were considered as stylish status symbols (which is why it's so well-known).
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Route 60 is another, lesser known highway that runs from Virginia Beach, Virginia to some beach in northern California. Of course, when the Interstates were built, small towns like the one I grew up in lost out, because why would you drive up and down windy mountain roads when you can run 65mph on 4-lane?

[Tranan]

Lets see.

A churc from 1128
The Vasa Ship. 1628
The House of Alfred Nobel. (Dynamite!)
25 rune stones.
A Tunel made by russian POW during the wars agins russia.

[Mitth`raw`nuruodo]

Okay,here we go:

Kennedy Space Center and all its historical doodads
Port Canaveral (all kinds of military ships with cool histories go in and out of there....[off-topic] I just visited the USS Wyoming, a Trident nuclear sub (my grandpa designed part of it). Kinda weird to stand in between 4 of the 24 nuclear missiles and realize that if something happens, you are gonna be vaporized...[/off-topic])
in port Canaveral the hanger most of the Apollo program was developed in is there (Hanger H I think... and maybe it was Gemeni, i just woke up, so I can be confused)
Cocoa Village is cool, and kinda historical, all the old buildings and stuff
im sure there's more, but I can't remember any