At Dearborn, Michigan you can visit Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. They are located at the same place. The village has a train you can ride on around the grounds. They have Thomas Edison's original workshop on display. The museum takes at least 4 hours to go through. It is full of everything from cars to toys.
The history in Boston, Massachusetts, is amazing! Once Leah is older you have to walk the Freedom Trail. It takes you around the entire city and shows you so many wonderful historical places that helped shape our country (Old North Church, Beacon Hill, Boston Massacre, Paul Revere's house, etc). Boston Harbor, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, and the children's museum would be fun, too. Even if you're not a baseball fan, a trip to Fenway Park to see the Red Sox play would be worth it just to see a historic stadium.
In Missouri, we stopped at The Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park. It is on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River from the Arch. It provides an excellent view of the St. Louis skyline. The park has a 43 foot tall concrete viewing platform with ramps to the top that were easy to climb. The viewing platform is free, as is park admission. The park also has a geyser fountain which is the tallest man made freshwater fountain in the world. Known as the Gateway Geyser, the fountain runs from April through October and fires a fountain of water as tall as the Arch itself four times a day. The park is named after Malcolm Martin, who was a St. Louis lawyer and philanthropist with a dream of building a companion park on the Illinois side so people could properly view the Arch. Martin organized the Gateway Center of Metropolitan St. Louis in 1987 to raise funds and build the Illinois park. The park became his life's work, and he used some of his own money to purchase land. He died in 2004, before the platform was completed, but his final gift of $5 million dollars saw the project completed. A statue of Martin sits on the top of the platform, gazing fondly at the view he wanted everyone else to have.
At Dearborn, Michigan you can visit Greenfield Village and the Henry Ford Museum. They are located at the same place. The village has a train you can ride on around the grounds. They have Thomas Edison's original workshop on display. The museum takes at least 4 hours to go through. It is full of everything from cars to toys.
ReplyDeleteThe history in Boston, Massachusetts, is amazing! Once Leah is older you have to walk the Freedom Trail. It takes you around the entire city and shows you so many wonderful historical places that helped shape our country (Old North Church, Beacon Hill, Boston Massacre, Paul Revere's house, etc). Boston Harbor, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, and the children's museum would be fun, too. Even if you're not a baseball fan, a trip to Fenway Park to see the Red Sox play would be worth it just to see a historic stadium.
ReplyDeleteIn Missouri, we stopped at The Malcolm W. Martin Memorial Park. It is on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River from the Arch. It provides an excellent view of the St. Louis skyline. The park has a 43 foot tall concrete viewing platform with ramps to the top that were easy to climb. The viewing platform is free, as is park admission.
ReplyDeleteThe park also has a geyser fountain which is the tallest man made freshwater fountain in the world. Known as the Gateway Geyser, the fountain runs from April through October and fires a fountain of water as tall as the Arch itself four times a day.
The park is named after Malcolm Martin, who was a St. Louis lawyer and philanthropist with a dream of building a companion park on the Illinois side so people could properly view the Arch.
Martin organized the Gateway Center of Metropolitan St. Louis in 1987 to raise funds and build the Illinois park. The park became his life's work, and he used some of his own money to purchase land. He died in 2004, before the platform was completed, but his final gift of $5 million dollars saw the project completed. A statue of Martin sits on the top of the platform, gazing fondly at the view he wanted everyone else to have.