Tim Murphy
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
After christening the new year with a hard-fought victory at Stones River, the Federal war effort in Middle Tennessee stalled during the...
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Tim Murphy
- Jul 30
- 9 min
The Battle of New Market
When Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant assumed command of all Federal armies in March 1864, he endeavored to strategize a cohesive war...
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Tim Murphy
- Jul 9
- 9 min
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
The socioeconomic programs of Reconstruction stimulated extensive infrastructural development within the former Confederate states....
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Tim Murphy
- Jun 25
- 3 min
The Dunlap Coke Ovens
The scientific innovations conceived during the Second Industrial Revolution stimulated technological advancements in transportation,...
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Tim Murphy
- Jun 4
- 7 min
Belle Meade Historic Site and Winery
In February 1807, Virginia-born planter John Harding and his wife, Susannah Shute, purchased a 250-acre homestead seven miles south of...
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Tim Murphy
- Apr 30
- 5 min
Jack Daniel's Distillery
Jasper Newton “Jack” Daniel was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee, between 1846 and 1850—period archival records were destroyed in an...
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Tim Murphy
- Mar 12
- 6 min
Ponce de Leon Inlet Lighthouse and Museum
Mosquito Inlet—first charted in April 1513 by Spanish conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon—was a relatively uninhabited estuary during the...
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Tim Murphy
- Mar 5
- 16 min
Castillo de San Marcos
Located in St. Augustine, Florida, Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest surviving example of European masonry fortifications in America....
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Tim Murphy
- Oct 30, 2022
- 7 min
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
Tuberculosis (TB) was a well-established global affliction during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The disease—commonly referred...
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Tim Murphy
- Oct 23, 2022
- 22 min
The Battles of The Wilderness and Spotsylvania Court House
The American Civil War’s third full year of combat was its most vicious and destructive yet. The Battles of Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and...
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Tim Murphy
- Sep 11, 2022
- 14 min
The Battle of Chancellorsville
Major General Ambrose E. Burnside lasted only a single campaign as head of the Army of the Potomac. His abject failure at Fredericksburg,...
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Tim Murphy
- Aug 7, 2022
- 15 min
The Battle of Fredericksburg
1862 was a calamitous year for the Union Army of the Potomac. George B. McClellan’s failed Peninsular Campaign and inability to vanquish...
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Tim Murphy
- Jul 24, 2022
- 18 min
Thomas Jefferson's Monticello
Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, his family’s 3,000-acre plantation in Albemarle County, Virginia. His father,...
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Tim Murphy
- May 29, 2022
- 7 min
The Cape Henry Lighthouses
Long before the installation of maritime navigation aids, coastal Virginia was a vast wilderness unadulterated by European...
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Tim Murphy
- Mar 6, 2022
- 7 min
West Point Foundry Preserve
Prior to the Revolutionary War, the American colonies—rife with natural resources—were practically devoid of any large-scale industrial...
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Tim Murphy
- Jan 30, 2022
- 12 min
High Bridge Trail State Park
“There have been higher bridges not so long and longer bridges not so high, but taking the height and length together, this is, perhaps,...
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Tim Murphy
- Oct 31, 2021
- 8 min
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum stands in commanding silence over the town of Weston, West Virginia—an imposing relic of America’s...
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Tim Murphy
- Oct 17, 2021
- 7 min
The Roanoke Canal Trail and Museum
Inadequate infrastructure was a prevailing problem in 18th Century America, particularly in the Piedmont regions. While land and...
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Tim Murphy
- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
Barboursville Ruins
The decrepit brick facades and Doric columns of Barboursville were once the epitome of Jeffersonian architecture in Orange County,...
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Tim Murphy
- Sep 19, 2021
- 6 min
Berkeley Plantation
Berkeley Plantation is the Old Dominion’s beau ideal colonial homestead. It features the oldest three-story brick home in Virginia and...
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