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The Historical Travel weblog is your travel guide to historic attractions in the Mid-Atlantic states.
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Latest Travel Reviews
 | Jan 16, 2010The fourth part in the "Mapping North America" series describes how the 1524 voyage of Giovanni da Verrazzano added to the international body of cartographic knowledge by establishing the fact that an entire continent connected Florida with Canada. It's also explained how a certain error on the part of Verrazzano led to the introduction of a spurious "Sea of Verrazzano" into world maps that were drawn following his [...] |
 | Jan 6, 2010The map published by Martin Waldseemüller in 1507 was the first to show the discoveries in the New World as belonging to a complete, almost entirely unexplored continent, separated from China by thousands of miles of ocean, and was the first map to label the New World with the name [...] |
 | Jan 2, 2010Juan de la Cosa sailed on the first three voyages of Christopher Columbus and was the owner and captain of the Santa María. de la Cosa made several maps, of which only one has survived. It is the oldest known European cartographic representation of the New World and is the only historic map to unambiguously illustrate the voyages of John [...] |
 | Dec 29, 2009Ptolemy's “Geography” was a treatise on cartography and a compilation of what was known of world geography in the Roman Empire of the 2nd century. The rediscovery of Ptolemy's methodology in the early 14th century coincided with the onset of the Age of Discovery and was an essential ingredient in the success of the voyages of early [...] |
 | Dec 18, 2009Fort Montgomery was built during the American Revolution near Bear Mountain in present-day Orange County, New York. Situated on a cliff promontory rising 100 feet above the Hudson River, the fortifications consisted of six 32-pound cannons, a boom and cable across the Hudson River and landward redoubts connected by ramparts. The fort was destroyed by the British on October 6, 1777 in the Battle of Fort Montgomery. Trails and interpretive signs guide visitors through the ruins of the fort. The timber frame visitor center provides visitors with a "gun sight" view down the Hudson River and contains artifacts from the original Fort [...] |
 | Dec 15, 2009Overlooking historic Cos Cob Harbor in Greenwich, Connecticut, the Bush-Holley Historic Site consists of four buildings with historic landscape and grounds restored circa 1900. Once home to the Cos Cob Art Colony, today's Bush-Holley House is a historic museum featuring two distinct time periods. The first spans the years 1790-1825, when the new nation transitioned from an agricultural economy to one that was based on the manufacturing of goods. The second period focuses on the turn of the twentieth century, when the Holley House functioned as a boarding house. During those years it provided a place for Cos Cob Art Colony artists to gather together and share ideas with each other, as well as with novelists and journalists who gathered at the [...] |
 | Dec 10, 2009The National Museum of the American Indian is dedicated to the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of the indigenous inhabitants of the United States. Under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, it has three facilities. One of those facilities is the George Gustav Heye Center, a permanent museum that is housed in the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House near the southern tip of Manhattan. The National Museum of the American Indian is home to the collection of the former Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, which owns more than 800,000 objects and a photographic archive of 125,000 images. The collection was assembled by George Gustav Heye during a 54-year period that began in [...] |
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 NETHERLANDS BELGIUM 1696 ALLARD ANTIQUE ENGRAVED CHART =>ViewPre-1900 $ 188.88 0d 4h 10m  Philip’s 12” Terrestrial World Globe C:1935 =>View1900-Now $ 325.0 0d 20h 34m  19th Cent. World globe Lebegue & CIE Napoleon III Era. =>ViewPre-1900 $ 500.0 0d 20h 46m  Industrial age world globe pre World War II, art deco =>ViewGlobes $ 111.28 1d 9h 22m  World Globe Vintage Austro Hung Ottoman Imperial Empire =>ViewPre-1900 $ 120.0 1d 17h 6m |
