Those beautifully vivid 19th century photos–the imagery so sharp you feel as if you can touch the fabric, the buttons, the hair–required people to remain…
Nineteenth-century women tended toward flowery scents, but a man could wear “violet water” without being considered effeminate. Until the twentieth century, people tried to improve…
It’s a sad day for March 25. Today is the 260th anniversary of today losing status as New Year’s Day. Beginning in 1752, New Year’s…
Grant’s cabin at City Point: it is seriously small, leaving no doubt of Mr. and Mrs. Grant’s genuine love and physical affection for each other.…
As the NPS ranger described Dr. Richard Eppes, plantation owner at City Point, Virginia — that he inhabited the very upper echelons of wealth, that his 2300-acre…
City Point National Cemetery was established 1866, according to the US VA. “Casualties were originally interred in burial grounds near the hospitals, and later they…