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Do you live in an area with a lot of historical sites?

Belt Fed said:
Yep. confederate camps and battlefields all around me. i have found civil war stuff metal detecting around here.
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Wait, Ark is with the Rebels !!
Say it aint so !!
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About 3 miles from here is Rock Eagle which is part of UGA and is a 4H camp where kids come for a week during the summer. I did when I was about 10. But the Rock Eagle effigy is the attraction. No one knows why the native Americans built it but it's over 100 feet long and wide. There is another one on the other side of the county named the Rock Hawk that's even bigger. They are estimated to be between 1000 and 3000 years old. Actually they look more like rock buzzards to me. Less than an hours drive from here is Crawfordville, GA which was the home of the Vice President of the Confederate States of America, Alexander H. Stevens and just a few mile pass there is Washington, GA which was home of Robert Toombs who was Secretary of State of CSA. Both of their home are still there and open for tours.
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Nothing really I know of around here, unless you count recent history. Auto racing.

I went to school 100 miles SW in Vincennes IN, which has a lot of Revolutionary War and pre-Revolutionary War history. Stomping grounds of George Rogers Clark in the “western” part of the war.

The big memorial is where the… alternate lifestyle… people hung out. Both of them.
 
Yes.

I've lived close-by two of the Lewis & Clark Expeditions' main campsites, have been on most of the Lewis & Clark Trail from the MT/ND line to the Pacific, and grew up near where Lewis & Clark first departed on their Expedition at Fort Pitt, PA. There's several US/Indian battlefield's near by in my state.

Where I grew up in Western PA there's several French & Indian War sites.
 
Hi @Guriellawarrior,

Welcome to the forum!

I'm not too far from the World's Biggest Potato Masher.

World's Largest Potato Masher | Travel Wisconsin

World's largest potato masher sits in front of the Food + Farm Exploration Center near Plover, Wis. The iconic symbol represents the fun exploration waiting inside and outside at the Center, honoring the agriculture industry, growers, innovators, and cons
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This state is also the birthplace of the Republican Party.

Birthplace of the Republican Party – Ripon Historical Society

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Thank you for your indulgence,

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Historical sites here in the southwest, the west for that matter, are different than back east. Battle sites in the East are well defined vs in the West, a battle could stretch for miles.

Picacho, Western most civil war battle site.

San Xavier del back, Catholic mission built prior to 1775. Still open and operational today.

Tombstone,

Ft Bowie, site of last Apache attack on a stagecoach.

Native American history of all sorts.

Too much to list...
 
This happened less than two miles from my house. They say her ghost still roams the area. I always got the heebie jeebies every time I passed the area on my way to work at 0330 in the morning! No way was I going to pick up any hitch hikers!
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