The Stable Courtyard

John Jay Homestead

The coachman’s house on your right and carriage barn on your left were built between 1801 and 1802. gated stone fences connected the two buildings and created a courtyard where the coaches and horses could be cared ...

Graveyard Of The Richmond Covenanter Church Reformed Presbyteria

Here lie buried many of the Scotch Irish pioneers, who, in 1772, under the leadership of the Rev. William Martin, founded one of the first Covenanter churches in upper South Carolina.

Marker is at the intersection of State Highway 901 and ...

The Courtyard

Edison National Historic Site, NJ

This open space between the laboratory buildings served many purposes: delivery area, test site, motion picture set, photograph backdrop, greeting area, and parking lot. Activities here changed almost daily.

The laboratory buildings surrounding the courtyard once bustled ...

The Backyard

Discovering Madison

"...the sumptuous board spread under the forest oaks .... everything that a luxurious country could produce, wines, and the well filled punch bowl, to say nothing of the invigorating mountain air ..."

- Mary Cutts, Memoir, c. 1840.

The Backyard barbecues ...

The Monticello Graveyard

This graveyard had its beginning in an agreement between two young men, Thomas Jefferson and Dabney Carr, who were school-mates and friends. They agreed that they would be buried under a great oak which stood here.

Carr, who married Jefferson's sister, ...

The Stable Yard

Rich Mountain Battlefield

Here in the stable yard, Confederate forces made their stand. A small log stable was the focal point of action. Large foundation stones still mark its location. A lone Confederate cannon stood beside the stable, blasting furiously during ...

The Churchyard

After September 11th, debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center covered the streets of lower Manhattan. Soot, papers, computer monitors, window blinds, and other items from the towers filled St. Paul’s churchyard. The churchyard re-opened to the public ...

The Stockyards

Railroads and cattle. The two were made for each other, and nowhere did that become more evident than right here in Kansas City.

As cattlemen began using the expanding Kansas Pacific railroad to move cattle more quickly from Texas ...

War in the Backyard

At the beginning of the Civil War, the third generation of the Scots-Irish Glass family lived at Rose Hill. The household consisted of Thomas Glass (age 67), and his wife Margaret (age 51), his son William (age 25) and fifteen ...

The Work Yard

The World Behind the Mansion

The stately trees and park-like grounds of today’s Hermitage bear scant resemblance to the working plantation of Andrew Jackson’s time. As the farm developed, trees were cleared to make room for fields and pastures.

By the time ...