National Historic Landmark - Harold C. Bradley House

Constructed in 1909, this is one of two residences to which Sullivan contributed (the other being the Babson House in Riverside, Illinois) just after his peak as a skyscraper architect. It is an excellent example of Prairie School design. It ...

Tarpon Bay Explorers at Darling National Wildlife Refuge

Tarpon Bay Explorers present Sanibel's ancient history through naturalist guided and self-guided kayak tours on Commodore Creek, a trail used by the ancient Calusas. The Shell Mound Trail has views of a 2,000-year-old shell mound covered with subtropical vegetation.

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Fort Center, Fisheating Creek Wildlife Management Area

Used as a location for a small fort during the Second and Third Seminole War, archaeological remains at Fort Center consist of mounds, ponds, circular ditches, and linear embankments built about 2,000 years ago.

At the site, bundles of human ...

Shell Mound, Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge

Florida Native American Heritage Trail

This area of the Wildlife Refuge contains a shell mound that was built up over a 1,000 year period. Between 1,800 and 400 years ago, native people used oysters and clams and food and discarded the ...

Ridley's Department Store

Once the largest retail establishment in the world, Ridley's was originally located in this building, which has been subdivided into a number of individual stores.

Information provided by the Lower East Side Business Improvement District.

Yellowstone National Park Wildlife: Wolves

Wolves ranged widely throughout North America in pre-Columbian times. Worldwide, all wolves, except the red wolf (Canis rufus) of the southeastern United States, are the same species (Canis lupus).

Wolves are highly social animals and live in packs. In Yellowstone, packs ...

Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park

Formed of Key Largo limestone and fossilized coral, this land was sold to the Florida East Coast Railroad, which used the stone to build Henry Flagler's Overseas Railroad in the early 1900s. After the railroad was built, the quarry was ...

Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park

Visitors can see West Indian manatees every day of the year from the park's underwater observatory in the main spring. The park showcases native Florida wildlife, including manatees, black bears, bobcats, white-tailed deer, American alligators, American crocodiles, and river otters. ...

Albert F. Madlener House

One of the most prominent residential buildings represented by the second generation of the Chicago School architects is the Albert F. Madlener House.

Designed by Hugh Garden, the house faces Burton St. with an off center front door. Three stories ...

Cradle of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was inaugurated as president of the CSA provisional government on the State Capitol portico on Feb. 18, 1861.

On Mar. 4, the first national flag of the Confederacy was hoisted over the Capitol itself. While government ...