Barnes Curb Market

Dubuque Iowa's grain-fed beef brought fame and fortune to a local Ensley grocery store when the Barnes family opened the Barnes Curb Market in 1947. Grady Barnes opened the first grocery store in the Ensley community, which showed the first ...

Whitmire Cemetery

The Whitmire Cemetery is one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in Escambia County, Florida. It offers the Ferry Pass community a burial ground filled with a rich history dating back to the early 20th Century. Although the oldest person ...

T.T. Wentworth Museum of Ensley

Manatee ribs, shark teeth, and the vertebra of a man: a historian and humanitarian shared his collection with the public, bringing the first museum to the Ensley community. T.T. Wentworth, Jr., a local land owner, tax collector, and Ensley citizen ...

Carlsbad Caverns

The caverns in Carlsbad, New Mexico are one of the most renowned cave systems in the United States. 16-year-old Jim White discovered the caves in 1898, and in 1915, the first photographs of the caves by Ray V. Davis stimulated ...

Tucson, Arizona

One of the oldest inhabited spaces in America, Tucson, Arizona has been home to humans for over 12,000 years. The name Tucson is a native word meaning "The Spring at the Base of Black Mountain."

The Santa Cruz River proved ...

Phoenix, Arizona

Phoenix, the thriving metropolis nicknamed "the Valley of the Sun," takes its name from Greek legend. Inspired by the hundreds of miles of irrigation canals left behind by the ancient Hohokam civilization, early settlers envisioned this new city rising, like ...

San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm

The San Gorgonio Pass Wind Farm provides enough energy to power the nearby city of Palm Springs and the entire Coachella Valley. Located within the San Bernardino Mountains in one of the nation's deepest mountain passes, the wind farm contains ...

Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant

Power on! With three pressurized reactors, Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant is the largest nuclear energy facility in the United States. U.S. power plants have no more than three reactors, although some foreign plants have more than four. Located 50 ...

San Xavier del Bac

Nine mile south of Tucson, Arizona, the Mission of San Xavier del Bac stands as a symbol of the blending of Native American and European cultures.

Construction of the church began in the late 17th Century, by Jesuit Father Eusebio ...

Farmington, NM

Human habitation in and around the Farmington, New Mexico area began with an ancient pueblo people known as the "Anasazi", a Navajo word meaning "ancient ones," who lived in the area over 2000 years ago.

The Anasazi in the Farmington area ...