Research Travel

Pictures, videos, and descriptions are wonderful for seeing and learning about the places that impacted the past, but there really are no adequate substitutes for physically exploring the sites...in person. Visiting and visually beholding great fields of battle, grand vistas, and museum artifacts, where events and pieces of enormous import creates awe and wonder. The following is a partial list of some of the places I have been able to experience in person. A few are more general cities, regions or even people. Those with pictures/videos hyperlink to the albums. While media may not replicate being there, it might be the next best thing.

Adena Mansion and Gardens Benjamin Harrison Home Berlin Bethsaida Bet Shem

Bull Run Camp Lejeune Camp Sherman Canal Fulton Canal Boats Capitol (U.S.)

Castillo de San Marcos Chancellorsville Church of the Nativity (Bethlehem) Church of the Holy Spulchre Colonial Willamsburg Commerzbank Tower Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame Concord Bridge

Dayton Airshow Dealey Plaza / Book Depository Doolittle Raiders Dome of the Rock

Fallen Timbers FDR Home and Library Flint Ridge Football Hall of Fame Fort Jefferson

Fort McHenry Fort Meigs Fort Miami Fort Recovery Fort Sumter Freedom Trail Fredricksburg Garst Museum Gettysburg Graceland Greenfield Village Greenville Treaty Henry Ford Museum Hopewell Mounds Indiana State Archives Indy 500 Speedway Jacob's Well Jamestown Fort

JFK Library Jefferson Monument Jerusalem Old City Lexington Green Library of Congress

Lincoln Library and Museum Lincoln’s Tomb Lorrain Motel Lowell Mill Factories / Canal & Locks Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library Majestic Theater Masada Monticello Mt. Gerizim Mt. Vernon National Cathedral New Orleans New York City New York State Archives and Museum

Ohio History Connection State Archives and Museum Perry's Cave Perry's Monument Philadelphia Pickaway County Historical Society Plymouth Rock Ponce De Leon Park Qumran Caves (Dead Sea) Shiloh (West Bank) St. Augustine Lighthouse Reichstag Ross County Historical Society

Saratoga Battlefield Schulyler House Smithsonian Museum of American History

Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Slater and Wilkinson’s Mills Statue of Liberty The Alamo

Tel Dan Tel Aviv Tippecanoe Top Cottage / Val Kill Tuskegee Airmen USS Yorktown

Vanderbilt House Vermont Walden Pond Wall Street West Point Washington Monument

Western Wall White House William Jefferson Clinton Library

William McKinley Presidential Library Tomb and Monument Y Bridge Yorktown

Marblehead Lighthouse

historiapilotos
May 18, 2020
1 min read

https://www.marbleheadlighthouseohio.org/

Marblehead Lighthouse

Built in 1821, the Marblehead Lighthouse is still standing strong as the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation on all of the Great Lakes. Gracefully set on the rocky limestone shore of Lake Erie, this beacon and its adjacent Keeper’s House became an Ohio State Park in 1998. The tower’s illustrious history boasts the first female lighthouse keeper in the United States, a rare three and one-half order Fresnel lens, and a functional iron staircase dating to the early 1900’s. A masonry finish covers the original limestone exterior of the lighthouse. Inside you will find a brick stack constructed in the late 1800’s to raise the tower’s height by fifteen feet. The commanding view from the top showcases several Lake Erie islands, a glacial alvar below, and a view of the Cleveland shoreline on clear days. The on-site Keeper’s House was built in 1880 and is now a museum staffed by historical society volunteers. A total of sixteen keepers have tended the light. The United States Coast Guard is now responsible for the maintenance of the beacon. The Marblehead Lighthouse State Park is operated by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Parks and Recreation. Throughout the year nearly one million people visit the park and over twenty thousand will climb the 77 steps to the top. Known as the most photographed site in the State of Ohio, it is also the favorite subject of countless artists. (from website)

Michael Burchett

Assistant Professor of History