A portion of this South Carolina home is believed to have been built in 1786 and added on to over time. It was also a busy stop for travelers along the Stagecoach Road. Back then, it sat at the center of a 1,200-acre rice plantation where hundreds were enslaved.
The ruins of Elm Bluff hold the story of Alabama’s earliest settlers and the people who came to be enslaved here.
Today you can visit the historic park at this Texas frontier town that once hosted Comanche, cattlemen, gunslingers, and Buffalo Soldiers.
This farmhouse in Georgia started out as a log cabin in the 1850s, growing over time to accommodate an important local family.
Built in 1887, this Florida house was designed by ship builders who built the steamboats for the Ocklawaha River nearby.
This Florida house from the 1880s was lost to fire in 2021.
It might look forlorn today but at one point, this brick building offered important services to the rural community that once surrounded it.
This store served a small but vibrant community that emerged when a sawmill was constructed nearby in the 1870s.
This home was originally built along the train tracks for the railroad engineer and his family. Today, it stands in a Florida ghost town.
A rural community built this one-room schoolhouse around 1900. It sat empty for many years before it was relocated to a park for future generations.