View from Pikes Peak from where Katharine Lee Bates and english teacher who was inspired by the spacious skies and "purple mountain"s majesty above the fruited plain wrote "American Beautiful".
Taos Pueblo has been continually inhabited for over 1,000 years. It is also the only living Native American community designed both as a World Heritage Site, and as a National Landmark. Thanks Bonnie Jeanne.
At Baltimore"s Fort McHenry in 1814, the Star-Spangled Banner come under British fire in the War of 1812. Its "broad stripes and bright stars" inspired Francis Scott Key to Write words that, set to music, later became our national anthem.
The interstate Highway System comprises approxmately 43,000 miles of expressways throughout the United States. Interstate 95 is the major north-south corridor in the Eastern U.S linking northern Maine to South Florida. 1-95 will be approximately 1,850 miles in length when completed; today over 1,700 miles are in use.