California is remembered for the gold rush that attracted fortune-seekers in the mid-1800s. New Orleans is famous for its touches of French-inspired architecture and culture. Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, is renowned as the site of a bloody battle in 1863 between Union and Confederate troops that changed the course of the Civil War.
These and other familiar destinations around the country rightly attract visitors seeking to remember and relive chapters of American history. In addition, there also are small towns which, while much less well known, recapture intriguing aspects of the nation’s past and provide an immersion into important parts of it.
