Eastern Shore Railway Museum – Wikipedia is in the City of Parksley in Virginia. We happened to drive past and stopped to make a few pictures.
I included an old ruin of a house not far from the museum.
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This is the second time I booked a boat tour with Chincoteague Island Adventures with Captain Randy Birch. His family has lived on Chincoteague for many generations. The stories he tells and the places we get to see are marvelous. We were the only two on the boat and it was so nice to get a private tour like that. He knows the local fishermen like the ones who showed us their catch of minnows.
This year is the 100th Annual Chincoteague Pony Roundup, Swim & Auction.
It was our first time visiting Twin Lights Historical Society Lighthouse | Highlands, NJ. It was closed for tours that day but there are lots of information boards to read.
Philipsburg Manor in Sleepy Hollow (hudsonvalley.org) in Sleepy Hollow, Westchester County, New York is well worth a visit. The docents do an excellent job telling all about the history.
For Dan’s Thursday Doors. Back at OSV – No Facilities is Dan’s door post for today.
On the way to Beaver Creak (our B&B for the night) we stopped at 1739 – Hager’s Fancy | Historic City Park and were given an excellent tour of the place. More information: Hager House (Hagerstown, Maryland) – Wikipedia
The Mountain Farm Museum is a collection of farm buildings assembled from locations throughout the Great Smoky Mountains Park. Visitors can explore a log farmhouse, barn, apple house, springhouse, and a working blacksmith shop to get a sense of how families may have lived one hundred years ago. Most of the structures were built in the late 19th century and were moved here in the 1950s. The Davis House offers a rare chance to view a log house built from chestnut wood before the chestnut blight decimated the American Chestnut in our forests during the 1930s and early 1940s. The museum is adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.
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“The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, also known as the Gatlinburg wildfires, were a complex of wildfires which began in late November 2016. Some of the towns most impacted were Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, both near Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The fires claimed at least 14 lives, injured 190,and is one of the largest natural disasters in the history of Tennessee.
By December 12, the fires had burned more than 10,000 acres (15 square miles) inside the national park, and 6,000 acres in other parts of the area. At least 14,000 area residents and tourists were forced to evacuate, while over 2,000 buildings were damaged and/or destroyed.
One of the largest wildfires was the Chimney Tops 2 Fire, which burned more than 10,000 acres, and closed the Chimney Tops Trail.
The Great Smoky Mountains wildfires were the deadliest wildfires in Tennessee, as well as the deadliest wildfires in the eastern U.S. since the Great Fires of 1947, which killed 16 people in Maine. In addition, the fires were also the most deadly and destructive of the 2016 Southeastern United States wildfires.
American country singer and notable local resident Dolly Parton was among many notable figures to pitch in to assist victims.” Source: 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires – Wikipedia
We stopped and explored many of the old cabins on our drive around Cades Cove in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park in Tennessee. Here is a bit of the History of Cades Cove – Great Smoky Mountains National Park (nps.gov). And here is a page with information about 12 Historical Structures in Cades Cove.
