Sometimes the best historic places are the ones you never planned to find. We weren’t looking for a church. We weren’t even planning another stop. Dusty and I were traveling through Bedford County, Pennsylvania, when we spotted a cemetery with a historical marker near the road. And, well, if you’ve followed our adventures for any … Read more
Exploring Columbus Cemetery, Civil War Earthworks, and the Forgotten History of Live Oak, Florida There is a ghost town hiding inside Suwannee River State Park. Not the kind with abandoned storefronts or houses slowly collapsing beneath the weight of time. This one is quieter. Its streets have become forest trails, its buildings have largely disappeared, … Read more
There are certain things you can count on when traveling with us. I will find history. Murph will find an opportunity to complicate something. And apparently, we will visit at least one cemetery. At this point, I don’t think that’s even accidental anymore. After spending some time exploring nearby Falling Creek Falls, we headed just … Read more
Some places look beautiful in photographs. Then you arrive, step through the gate, and realize the photographs didn’t prepare you at all. That was the Old Sheldon Church Ruins for me. Hidden beneath enormous live oaks in the South Carolina Lowcountry, the remains of this eighteenth-century church rise from the landscape almost like they were … Read more
Some historic places announce themselves. They have signs along the highway, parking lots, interpretive markers, and plaques explaining exactly why you should stop. Others are much quieter. Sometimes you glimpse a few old headstones through the trees as you drive past and think— Wait. Was that a cemetery? That’s exactly how Dusty and I discovered … Read more
Sometimes the wrong turn is the one worth remembering. There are places we carefully plan to visit. We research them. Add them to an itinerary. Figure out where to park and what we want to see when we arrive. And then there are places we find completely by accident. Micanopy Historic Cemetery was one of … Read more
Every place has two histories:the one you can see…and the one that’s been nearly erased. When I made my way to Webster, I wasn’t expecting a mystery. I was looking for a cemetery tied to Florida’s early pioneer families—trying to connect it back to the vanished community of Oriole Ghost Town, a place that faded … Read more
There’s a stillness at Antietam National Cemetery that doesn’t feel empty. It feels… full. Not loud. Not overwhelming. Just present. Rows of white headstones stretch across the grass in quiet precision, broken only by the shade of old trees and the watchful figure of a soldier carved in stone. It’s peaceful in a way that … Read more
There are places that announce themselves the moment you arrive—grand gates, bold markers, legends whispered before you even step out of the car. Camp Springs Cemetery isn’t one of those places. It sits quietly in Henry County, Alabama, surrounded by open sky and Wiregrass soil, asking nothing more than that you slow down. Nearly 500 … Read more
Some places don’t announce themselves. They don’t have visitor centers or iron gates or tidy rows of matching stones. They sit quietly behind trees, letting the world grow up around them, waiting to see who notices. McGeachy Cemetery is one of those places. Despite driving through this Hernando County neighborhood countless times, I had never … Read more