Tag: “American West”

11 places found.

  1. Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site

    Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site was built in 1833 as the only fort along the Santa Fe trail between Missouri and Mexican settlements. It was a place for Cheyennes and Arapaho to trade buffalo hides.

  2. key west, florida

  3. American Home

    The American Home, located at ul. Letneperevozinskaya 3 in Vladimir, Russia opened in 1992.

  4. Wyatt Earp's Grave

    Wyatt Earp's final resting place in Colma at the Hills of Eternity Memorial Park.

  5. Southernmost Point

    The buoy marks the southernmost point in the Continental United States. Sitting at the end of Key West, Florida the marker looks out over the seas between Cuba and the USA.

    Two commemorative marker stones are engraved dedicated to those who have come from or tried to from Cuba.

  6. Bluefield, West Virginia

    Nature's Air-Conditioned City

    (Provided by Wikipedia)

    The history of Bluefield begins in the 1780s, when two families settled in a rugged and remote part of what is now southern West Virginia, and built a small village with a mill, a church, a one-room schoolhouse, and a fort for defending the small settlement against invasions by the much larger Shawnee Indian tribe on the banks of the Bluestone River. The Davidson and Bailey family had to sell a portion of their land when in 1882, Captain John Fields, of the Norfolk and Western Railroad pioneered the area and began building a new railroad through the hills of Bluefield (named after the chicory flowers in the area that painted the landscape a purplish blue hue during the summer) and nearby Harman, Virginia.

    Underneath the feet of the Davidsons and Baileys lie the largest and richest deposit of bituminous coal in the world - the soft burning coal which was ripe for fueling the industrial machines of the developing world.

  7. New River

    Arching gracefully across the New River, the bridge has the world's longest single arch steel span. At 876 feet above the New River, it is the second highest bridge in this country.

  8. Sutter's Mill

    This saw mill is a replica of the saw mill owned by John Sutter in 1848. This is the place where gold was discovered in California which started the gold rush eventually leading to California's statehood.

  9. The Greenbrier

    Elegance and luxury defined is what you will experience when staying at The Greenbrier in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. This resort has been pampering its guests since 1778, boasting 721 rooms.

  10. White House Hotel

    Introducing Bowery's Whitehouse Hotel of New York, the newest and coolest hostel in the No-Ho District of New York City/Manhattan for students, backpackers, and travelers on a budget.

    Just blocks away from NYU, Cooper Union, The Time Cafe, Greenwich Village, CBGB's, and New York's hottest night spots and restaurants, The Whitehouse is close and convenient to everything New York is famous for. In fact, it is the ONLY student hostel in New York City with single and double air-conditioned accommodations at dormitory-style rates!