In our quest to visit (and get stamps from) every National Park Service property, we headed back to Fort Pulaski. We first visited when we went on vacation to Savannah in 2013. Address and Location Fort Pulaski sits about ten miles outside of Savannah on Cockspur Island. You reach it from US 80, and you…
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Cowpens National Battlefield
On our way home from our last trip to Blacksburg, we took a slight detour to visit Kings Mountain National Military Park and Cowpens National Battlefield. The battlefields are only a few miles apart on Interstate 85, and it’s worth the time to visit both. They’re also rather small, so you may find separate trips…
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Kings Mountain National Military Park
I’m on a quest to visit as many National Park Service properties as possible. Since we live in Augusta, Mac and I have been knocking out sites in both Georgia and South Carolina. We stopped by Kings Mountain National Military Park and Cowpens National Battlefield in South Carolina while driving back from our latest trip…
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Ninety Six National Historic Site
We decided to make the most of Mac’s long weekend and drove up to Ninety Six National Historic Site in South Carolina. Ninety Six was the site of the first Revolutionary War battle in the South (in 1775). It was also the setting for the longest (and ultimately unsuccessful) siege in the American Revolution. Address…
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Congaree National Park
Congaree National Park sits just outside of Columbia, South Carolina, so we decided to stop on our way back home from Blacksburg. Congaree National Park features over 20,000 acres of old-growth, bottomland hardwood forest. It was created to protect the forest from logging and to preserve an area of what America once looked like. If…
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Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
Our final stop on our Georgia National Park Service day trip was Jimmy Carter National Historic Site. Jimmy Carter hails from Plains, Georgia, about a 30 minute drive from Andersonville. The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site includes Jimmy’s childhood home outside of town, their former high school in town, the historic district, a butterfly trail,…