Historic Site stories:
SC site of bloody labor strike violence crumbles
Oct 5th, 2009 - AOL News
HONEA PATH, S.C. -All that remains of the abandoned South Carolina textile mill that was the site of the nation's deadliest violence during a labor strike 75 years ago are crumbling brick walls...
Obama's Ghana visit will stress African self-reliance
Jul 11th, 2009 - MiamiHerald
ACCRA, Ghana -- President Barack Obama isn't descended from slaves; his father was from Kenya, his mother from Kansas. However, his visit to Ghana, where slaves once were captured and shipped to America...
Historic Site videos from YouTube:
1:37Coteau-du-Lac National Historic Site of Canada
The Coteau-du-Lac National Historic Site is located 40 km southwest of Montréal on the shores of the St. Lawrence River, and offers a window on a particularly rich history going back several millennia in time. Owing to its strategic position on the River ...
1:37Lachine Canal National Historic Site of Canada
Located in Montréal, the Lachine Canal stretches 14.5 km from the Old Port to Lake Saint-Louis. Already in the planning stages during the French Regime, it would only open to shipping in 1825. Tens of thousands of ships took this route before the construction of the St ...
5:57Olana State Historic Site
Transcript: Olana was the home and estate of 19th century Hudson River School artist Frederic Edwin Church. Now a New York State Historic Site and National Historic Landmark, Olana is situated high on a hill south of Hudson, NY ...
7:28Jefferson Davis Memorial State Historic Site
A video tour including a narration of the Jefferson Davis capture site in Irwinvile, GA. The place where the civil war ended. For four years, Jefferson Davis had led the Confederate States of America as its President. As the Civil War drew to a close ...
