ARTICLES AND TIPS ABOUT 19TH ST: 19th St Family Vacations and Trips with Your Kids
PORTLAND, OREGON: TRAVEL BRIEF - Portland, sitting at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers and close in proximity to mountains, ocean, and desert, is still a small town at heart. Portland prides itself on its 19th-century architecture and its lush gardens. The work of talented artists appears in surprising places around Portland, such as police stations, office towers, banks, playgrounds, and the sides of buildings.
MINNEAPOLIS/ST. PAUL: TRAVEL BRIEF - Located on opposite sides of on the Mississippi River, Minneapolis and St. Paul were settled in the 19th century. Minneapolis is a major city with a blend of architecture and the city skyline, while St. Paul has preserved much of its Victorian architecture. Popular cultural destinations in Minneapolis include the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis Planetarium, and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. St. Paul offers the Minnesota Historical Society, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and the Minnesota Children's Museum. Due to the cold winters, these cities have extensive skyway systems that allow people to spend a day in town without ever stepping outdoors.
BUCKSKIN JOE, COLORADO: TRAVEL BRIEF - You may not be able to turn back time, but you can come close at the Buckskin Joe Frontier Town. The park gives you a taste of the Old West with reenactments of 19th-century events, gold mining, and horse-drawn trolley rides. Thirty of the buildings that make up the Frontier Town are original structures from ghost towns in the Rocky Mountain Region. Buckskin Joe has also been the location for many local and national television commercials and photo shoots with an Old West theme.
VISIT THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE: TRAVEL BRIEF - In the fall of 1808, Thomas and Nancy Lincoln settled on the 348-acre Sinking Spring Farm. Two months later on February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin. Congress established the area as a Historic Site by Congress in 1916. An early 19th-century Kentucky cabin, symbolic of the one in which Lincoln was born, is preserved in a memorial building at the site of his birth.
VICTORIA MANSION - Victoria Mansion, Portland Elaborate 19th-century mansion designed by Henry Austin, also known as the Morse-Libby House. Attraction type: Historic home; Museum
PORTLAND FIRE MUSEUM - Portland Fire Museum, Portland Learn how a Maine community has fought fires over the past century through a vast collection of memorabilia and exhibits including 19th-century water pumps and original horse stalls. Attraction type: Specialty museum
EVERGREEN CEMETERY - Evergreen Cemetery, Portland Cemetery listed in the National Register of Historic Places is the final resting place of many famous politicians of the 18th and 19th centuries. Attraction type: Cemetery
BUDAPEST SPRING FESTIVAL 2005 - The Budapest Spring Festival will be organised this year for the 25th time, between 19th March and 4th April 2005. This large cultural event attracts thousands of people to Budapest from every corner of the world. Stages of theatres and concert halls invite hundreds of world famous artists, musicians and actors.
THE ALLURE OF LUANG PRABANG - The Allure of Luang Prabang This spectacular, unspoiled, river-flooded town, set in northern Laos, turns the clock back to the 19th century.
LOCHS, ROCKS, AND BARRELS - Lochs, Rocks, and Barrels The single-malt whiskies of Scotland are a distillation of the rain-soaked Highlands and remote, sea-sprayed isles. Below, our fave picks of 18th- and 19th-century distilleries that combine the picturesque and the eminently quaffable.
REDISCOVERING LIBYA - Rediscovering Libya Off-limits to Americans for decades, Libya has reopened its doors. The author follows the 19th-century trail of Scotsman Hugh Clapperton, the first Westerner to explore the mystical heart of the Sahara.
SAN FRANCISCO MARITIME NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK - San Francisco's Maritime National Historic Park features four 19th-century ships plus a restored WWII submarine
BASEBALL HISTORY IN GEORGIA - Get the devil on down to Georgia, relive baseball history and play nine innings - 19th century style
TOURING THE COTSWOLDS: LESSONS IN LIFE - THE market town of Cheltenham, in Gloucestershire, was a popular 19th-century English ...
WEEKENDER | OCEAN CITY, N.J. - FROM its beginnings as a 19th-century Methodist retreat, Ocean City has strived to ...
BUDAPEST SPRING FESTIVAL 2005 - The Budapest Spring Festival will be organised this year for the 25th time, between 19th March and 4th April 2005. This large cultural event attracts thousands of people to Budapest from every corner of the world. Stages of theatres and concert halls invite hundreds of world famous artists, musicians and actors.
