Country · 110 places dug
The history of the United States
222 digs · 2547 sourced records · last reviewed 23 October 2026
Strata has dug 110 places in the United States — Provo, Salt Lake City, Lehi and more: 222 spots of ground, 2547 sourced records, from deep time to the modern era. Each place below is a page of its own, assembled from what happened on particular ground there, with every record linked to its source.
Places dug in the United States
The history of ProvoA Federal-style brick house in downtown Provo — Provo, Utah, grew from a Timpanogos fishing ground into a Mormon settlement, then a school town and mining-money city. 18 digs228 records The history of Salt Lake CityA railroad corridor turned city block — Salt Lake City holds ground stretched from an 1824 ambush on the Jordan River to a 2026 stabbing at a shopping mall, passing through farming villages, a house that ended a war without battle, and founding families — Mormon settlers, mining senators, railroad men — whose houses, schools and cemeteries still mark its streets. 18 digs
177 records The history of LehiA 1905 flour mill, still grinding — Lehi, Utah, grew from a farming settlement on the old bed of Lake Bonneville into a city of subdivisions and schools, shadowed by the 1849 killings at Battle Creek Canyon and the walled fear that followed, and marked by a flour mill still grinding since 1906. 15 digs
163 records The history of San JoseA quiet residential lot in San Jose — San Jose has grown across Mexican land grants, mission ground, orchard country, and rail-era hamlets, held in turn by soldiers, missionaries, ranchers, and transit officials. 8 digs
74 records The history of HighlandA DuPont chemist who bet his own basement over his boss — Highland, Utah, was incorporated as a city in 1870 on bench ground above old Lake Bonneville, later farmed before subdivisions such as Dry Creek Highlands and Blessing Rock at Beacon Hill covered it with houses built from the 1990s onward, held since by successive families through sales, mortgages and liens. 7 digs
58 records The history of New York CityA park built over a demolished slum — New York City's ground holds Times Square's lit crossroads, a Baptist church of radical causes, parks built over potter's fields and a vanished slum, and a garment-factory floor where 146 workers died. 6 digs
82 records The history of BostonSite of America's deadliest nightclub fire — Boston's ground holds more than one century at once — colonial byways and burying grounds, a corner where soldiers fired on a crowd in 1770, a park carved from a harbourside slum, and a nightclub lot where 492 died in 1942. 6 digs
80 records The history of PhiladelphiaSignatures written as treason against the Crown — Philadelphia holds ground where a declaration of independence became an act of treason against the Crown, where a Gothic Revival prison once watched seven cellblocks from a single point, where an 18th-century fort survived a deadly siege, and where a surgeon's donated specimens still sit behind glass. 4 digs
57 records The history of HurricaneOpen ground above the Virgin River — Hurricane, Utah, was founded in 1896 after settlers finished a canal carrying water through solid lava rock to the Virgin River valley. 4 digs
43 records The history of SavannahAn Italianate mansion where its owner shot a man in 1981 — Savannah's ground holds a plantation turned riverside cemetery, a Greek Revival mansion on Madison Square, and an Italianate house on Monterey Square where a killing became a trial and then a legend. 3 digs
45 records The history of Mount PleasantA downtown historic district on Main Street — Mount Pleasant, Utah grew from a stone fort raised in 1849 and burned in the Walker War into a settlement refounded through the Black Hawk War, which closed in 1872 with a treaty signed in a bishop's front room on ground that later became its Main Street commercial district. 3 digs
41 records The history of OgdenThe night a stereo shop errand became a massacre — Ogden, Utah, grew from an 1844-organized city into a railroad and commercial hub, holding brick apartment blocks, a historic tabernacle site and the United States Post Office and Courthouse. 3 digs
38 records The history of CharlestonA 1802 county jail, now an event venue — Charleston gathers two unrelated grounds under one name: a South Carolina county seat where a burned statehouse became a courthouse that shaped the White House, and a county jail built on a poor burial ground; and a Utah farming town shrunk by a reservoir. 3 digs
37 records The history of MiamiThe hotel that hosted the Beatles and died on purpose — This record gathers the Collins Avenue beachfront in Miami Beach, built up from bay and barrier island from the 1870s onward, where a 1957 MiMo tower hosted the Beatles in 1964 and was, decades later after a fire, deliberately reduced to rubble in 2022. 3 digs
23 records The history of DallasA 1940s park where a president was shot — Dallas gathers two very different grounds: the downtown park where a bluff-top trading post became the city, and later the site of a president's assassination, and a stretch of North Houston Street where an old power plant gave way to a $420 million arena built to keep the Mavericks and Stars at home. 2 digs
29 records The history of GalvestonThe storm that killed thousands overnight — Galveston gathers its record here house by house, from the steel-framed Moody Home to the turreted Beissner House on 27th Street. 2 digs
29 records The history of LouisvilleThe night the singing started at dawn — Louisville's record runs from Virginia land claims before Kentucky's founding to a hilltop farm turned tuberculosis hospital, and to a pavement outside a cathedral where David McAtee bled for hours in 2020. 2 digs
29 records The history of New OrleansNew Orleans's oldest surviving cemetery — New Orleans gathers its past in close quarters: a French Quarter townhouse built for an architect's own family, and a walled cemetery on Basin Street holding tombs of a voodoo queen, a chess champion and a mayor. 2 digs
29 records The history of Park CityThe mines needed dry shafts, so a railroad grew here — Park City, Utah, incorporated in 1869, grew up around silver mines that demanded constant pumping to stay dry. 2 digs
28 records The history of Sierra VistaTombstone's old pioneer cemetery, now a roadside memorial — This record gathers two points of ground in Tombstone, Arizona, near present-day Sierra Vista: the O. 2 digs
28 records The history of Township of CumberlandA boulder battlefield at Gettysburg — Cumberland Township, Pennsylvania, holds two pieces of the Gettysburg battlefield: the national cemetery built on Cemetery Hill for Union dead of July 1863, and Devil's Den, the boulder field where Confederate and Union soldiers fought at close range on July 2, 1863. 2 digs
28 records The history of Saint GeorgeA mall that buried its own anchors — Saint George, Utah, founded in 1861 as the Mormon cotton mission's base, holds ground that runs from an 1860 burial field to a 1990 shopping mall. 2 digs
27 records The history of Saint JohnsburyA schoolhouse turned Colonial Revival duplex — Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, incorporated as a town in 1791, grew around the Fairbanks scale-works family whose name still marks the place. 2 digs
27 records The history of ChicagoA 1926 movie palace, now a Broadway house — Chicago's ground carries two hard records close together: North Desplaines Street, where a bomb killed seven police officers in 1886 and set off a trial that hanged four anarchists, and West Randolph Street, where a 1903 theatre fire killed over 600 before a 1926 movie palace rose on the same site. 2 digs
25 records The history of Mount Pleasant-MoroniOpen ground near Moroni, Utah — Mount Pleasant-Moroni gathers open farm and town ground in Sanpete County, Utah, settled from the 1850s by Latter-day Saint pioneers, scarred by the Wakara and Black Hawk Wars, and later marked by forts, a narrow-gauge railroad, a post office closed in 1896, and farmland that endures unchanged beside it. 2 digs
25 records The history of OremThe bigamist who came back a bishop — Orem, a city in Utah Valley founded in 1877, holds ground once part of Lakeview and bordering older Provo. 2 digs
25 records The history of Heber CityA highway crossing in Wasatch County — Heber City, Utah, became the seat of Wasatch County in 1859 and grew from a valley reached only by toll road into a railroad and highway town. 2 digs
24 records The history of Township of JeffersonA warden's house built by prison inmates — Jefferson Township gathers two very different grounds: East Capitol Avenue in Jefferson City, where a warden's house rose beside the Missouri State Penitentiary in 1887–88, and East 1450 Road in Cedar County, rural farmland near Stockton Lake since the Sac River was dammed in 1969. 2 digs
22 records The history of GoshenThe farm town that sent a boy to the big leagues — Goshen, Utah began in 1857 as a Mormon farming settlement on the dry southern edge of Utah Lake's basin, surviving Ute raids and a lower-ground abandonment before settling uphill. 2 digs
20 records The history of WindsorA brickmaker built his house from his own backyard — Windsor, Connecticut, grew from a founding settlement into a town of brick farmhouses and family burying grounds. 2 digs
20 records The history of FillmoreThe road that got erased — Fillmore, Utah, grew up on Pahvant hunting ground beside Corn Creek, serving briefly as territorial capital in the 1850s and as a stop on U. 2 digs
19 records The history of West Santa ClaraOpen hillside in the Santa Cruz foothills — West Santa Clara gathers an unincorporated stretch of the Santa Cruz foothills above Cupertino, where limestone mining at Permanente Quarry grew into a major cement operation under Henry Kaiser, and Congress Springs Road, cut by Chinese laborers for loggers, once led to a mineral-water resort before fire and county purchase changed its course. 2 digs
19 records The history of AlbuquerqueA village that became a number then vanished — Albuquerque's ground holds two quieter stories beneath its streets: a 1716 land grant held by a soldier's widow, and a farming settlement called Los Griegos. 2 digs
18 records The history of CelinaA cemetery outlasted the family farm around it — Celina grew up on Collin County prairie once broken by early farm families, whose burial grounds still mark the land. 2 digs
17 records The history of NaugatuckBuilt and rebuilt on a river that kept taking it back — Naugatuck, Connecticut, grew up in a narrow valley floodplain where mills turned on the Naugatuck River's current, built over Waterbury Gneiss more than 500 million years old. 2 digs
16 records The history of RooseveltOpen ground in Duchesne County — Roosevelt, Utah, grew from the 1905-1906 homesteading rush into the Uinta Basin, beginning life as 'Dry Gulch City' before taking its present name. 2 digs
16 records The history of PlanoThe graveyard that survived a church, a highway and a mall — Plano began as prairie that twice drove settlers off before 1844, then held when Henry Cook arrived in 1845 and buried his son Daniel in 1847. 2 digs
15 records The history of DraperA house on a quiet Draper street — East Longbranch Drive in Draper, Utah, traces a single suburban lot from farmland to subdivision to family home, set a mile and a half south of the Draper Utah Temple, dedicated in 2009, which gave this end of the valley its only landmark name. 2 digs
14 records The history of Castle RockThe town that vanished under the county's own word for it — Castle Rock, United States, grew from a scatter of ground whose record begins not in any town chronicle but in a soil surveyor's notebook and a vanished hamlet's name. 2 digs
13 records The history of MansfieldA Victorian prison, now a museum — Mansfield, Ohio, holds ground shaped by a single long institution on Olivesburg Road: a Civil War training camp turned, from 1886, into a Victorian Gothic prison that housed some 155,000 inmates before closing in 1990 and reopening in 1995 as a museum. 1 dig
16 records The history of San FranciscoA Civil War fort turned federal prison — This record gathers one piece of ground in San Francisco: Alcatraz Island, a rocky point in the bay named by Spanish explorers for its pelicans, built up as a United States Army fort, turned federal penitentiary, occupied by Native American activists, and now kept as a national park. 1 dig
16 records The history of AustinA brick fraternal hall from 1867 — Austin, Nevada, rose from a silver strike in Pony Canyon in 1862 and swelled quickly into a boomtown. 1 dig
15 records The history of BoiseA former territorial prison, now a museum — Boise's recorded history here centres on one ground: the Old Idaho State Penitentiary, east of the city, built from 1870 by inmate labour and operated for 101 years as the territorial and state prison until a 1973 riot closed it. 1 dig
15 records The history of Charter Township of PortageA Carnegie library turned local museum — Charter Township of Portage's record here centres on Shelden Avenue in Houghton, Michigan, where Andrew Carnegie's $15,000 raised a brick library in 1909 to 1910 on the site of a former armory. 1 dig
15 records The history of DeadwoodA hillside cemetery above Deadwood — Deadwood, South Dakota, rose on the gold-rush frontier and buried much of its early story on the mountainside above it. 1 dig
15 records The history of ElyA mining town's main corner — Ely, Nevada grew up around copper and the railroad, its downtown grid laid out in 1907 after floods drove the town uphill. 1 dig
15 records The history of EphraimA Sanpete Valley farm town — Ephraim grew from an 1854 pioneer fort in Utah's Sanpete Valley into a settled farm town, shaped by years of conflict with Native peoples, Mormon cooperative building, and civic institutions such as its Carnegie library and Snow College, founded in 1888. 1 dig
15 records The history of EurekaA mining town's opera house, now a convention hall — Eureka, Nevada grew up around silver mining, and its downtown still carries the marks of that boom: fires that cleared ground, violence remembered in local lore, and the Eureka Opera House, built in 1880 and later restored, standing as the town's enduring landmark. 1 dig
15 records The history of Harpers FerryA one-story brick firehouse, four times moved — Harpers Ferry grew around a river crossing founded by Robert Harper, buried there in 1782, and became known for the small brick firehouse where John Brown made his last stand in 1859. 1 dig
15 records The history of Pleasant GroveThe clearing that came before the houses — Pleasant Grove, Utah, took shape within a year of the 1849 Battle Creek killings, when militiamen ran down a band of Timpanogos in an icy creek nearby. 1 dig
15 records The history of TonopahA 1941 Moderne post office — Tonopah, Nevada, entered the record in 1900 as a mining boomtown, its early years marked by disease, violence and sudden fortune. 1 dig
15 records The history of Township of ConynghamA near-ghost town over a burning coal fire — Within Conyngham Township lies Centralia, Pennsylvania, a borough founded above a coal seam bought by a Philadelphia sea captain around 1830 and incorporated in the 1860s. 1 dig
15 records The history of Township of Sainte GenevieveA corner in old Ste. Genevieve — Sainte Genevieve began in 1732 as a French colonial settlement on the Mississippi, becoming a Spanish colonial city in 1762 and a county seat in 1735. 1 dig
15 records The history of WelltonA 19th-century territorial prison, now a museum — Wellton's recorded history centres on Prison Hill Road, site of the Yuma Territorial Prison, a sandstone compound above the Colorado River opposite Fort Yuma. 1 dig
15 records The history of West Feliciana ParishAn antebellum house with a violent, contested past — West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, holds Myrtles Plantation, a Greek Revival house raised outside St. 1 dig
15 records The history of Wounded KneeSite of the 1890 massacre — Wounded Knee is the ground in South Dakota where, on December 29, 1890, the U. 1 dig
15 records The history of Charter Township of BathThe site of the Bath School bombing — Bath, Michigan, grew from the hamlet of Ossawa into a railroad village platted in 1864, its community hall and cemetery ground later reshaped by the Bath School disaster of May 18, 1927, when Andrew Kehoe's bombing of Bath Consolidated School left 44 dead and the site now a memorial park. 1 dig
14 records The history of DonnerA California state park and memorial — Donner, near Truckee, California, holds ground long used by the Washoe before it became the winter camp where the Donner Party was trapped by snow in October 1846. 1 dig
14 records The history of Fall RiverA murder house, now a bed and breakfast — Fall River holds one recorded piece of ground so far: 230 Second Street, where Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet in 1892. 1 dig
14 records The history of KnoxvilleThe president who called this the most beautiful church he'd seen — Knoxville, founded in 1792, grew from a frontier settlement besieged in 1793 into a county seat marked by courthouse, church and post office. 1 dig
14 records The history of MoundsvilleA Gothic Revival prison, now a tour site — Moundsville, West Virginia, grew around an ancient Adena mound and a Gothic Revival stone penitentiary built between 1866 and 1876. 1 dig
14 records The history of Sheridan LakeA massacre site, now a national historic site — Sheridan Lake, Colorado, stands near Sand Creek, where on November 29, 1864, Colonel John Chivington's Colorado volunteers attacked a sleeping Cheyenne and Arapaho camp. 1 dig
14 records The history of St. LouisA brewing dynasty's house of suicides — St. 1 dig
14 records The history of Township of AdamsSite of the dam that drowned Johnstown — The Township of Adams holds the remains of the South Fork Dam, built in 1836 for the Pennsylvania Canal and later weakened by a private fishing club, whose failure on May 31, 1889 sent twenty million tons of water into Johnstown, fourteen miles below. 1 dig
14 records The history of TulsaTulsa's historic Black neighborhood — At the corner of Greenwood Avenue and East Cameron Street stood the heart of Black Wall Street, a Black-owned business district begun by O. 1 dig
14 records The history of AguilarSite of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre — Aguilar, Colorado, sits near a coalfield whose ground along County Road 44 carries one of American labour's harshest episodes. 1 dig
13 records The history of Courthouse-Collins Settlement DistrictA Gothic Revival asylum, now a museum — Courthouse-Collins Settlement District's recorded ground centres on Asylum Drive in Weston, West Virginia, where the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum rose in blue sandstone between 1858 and 1881, served as a mental hospital for 130 years, and now stands open as a museum. 1 dig
13 records The history of Estes ParkA 1909 Georgian Revival hotel, now a resort — Estes Park, Colorado, grew up around land once part of the Earl of Dunraven's failed hunting preserve, later bought by Freelan Oscar Stanley, whose grand hotel above the town came to define it, through foreclosure, fame and a $400 million sale. 1 dig
13 records The history of LoganA teenager crossed an ocean alone for a faith he had never seen practiced — Logan, Utah, organized as a city in 1859, grew from a Mormon settlement into a valley seat marked by a college founded by Brigham Young, a mob lynching, and the quiet record of immigrant lives built into its houses and churches. 1 dig
13 records The history of MapletonA pioneer's house turned into the whole town's attic — Mapleton, Utah, began as farmland settled around 1850 under the name Union Bench, an extension of Springville, before disputes over water rights led to its incorporation as a town in 1901. 1 dig
13 records The history of MemphisA hotel turned civil rights museum — On Mulberry Street in Memphis stands the ground of the old Lorraine Motel, opened in 1925 as the whites-only Windsor Hotel, renamed in 1945 by its new owner Walter Bailey, and marked forever by the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1 dig
13 records The history of OglethorpeA Confederate prison camp, now a national cemetery and memorial — Oglethorpe holds the ground of Camp Sumter, the Confederate prison camp known as Andersonville, opened in February 1864 and closed in April 1865. 1 dig
13 records The history of OurayOne of the world's oldest working power plants — Ouray, Colorado, took shape on ground that was San Juan County before Ouray County existed, from 1875 to 1877. 1 dig
13 records The history of SharpsburgA stone gatehouse at a Civil War cemetery — Sharpsburg, Maryland, founded in 1763, became the site of the single bloodiest day of the American Civil War on September 17, 1862, when 23,000 men fell near the town. 1 dig
13 records The history of Spanish ForkFarmland on the edge of Spanish Fork — Spanish Fork, Utah, holds ground stretching from a radiocarbon-dated encampment near 1000 AD to a walled Mormon fort raised against fear in 1852. 1 dig
13 records The history of SpringvilleA WPA-built art museum — Springville, Utah, settled in 1850, grew around an art collection that began with donations to a high school in 1903 and became the state's oldest fine arts museum. 1 dig
13 records The history of American ForkThe boy who measured the electron and came back to the wall — American Fork, Utah, incorporated as a city in 1850, holds a record that runs from an early pioneer burial ground through a farmstead preserved from 1883 to the rock-walled cemetery, built in 1937, where physicist Harvey Fletcher and congresswoman Reva Beck Bosone were laid to rest. 1 dig
12 records The history of BristolA winter chapel that grew into a clock empire — Bristol, Connecticut, began in 1742 as New Cambridge, when farm families on Fall Mountain and Chippens Hill won leave to hold winter services away from Farmington's parish. 1 dig
12 records The history of Fountain GreenA ranching town in Sanpete Valley — Fountain Green, Utah, grew from ground once called Uintah Springs, where four wagon drivers were killed in October 1853. 1 dig
12 records The history of HartfordA 1944 big-top fire that killed 168 people — Hartford's Barbour Street carries the memory of 1944, when the Ringling Bros. 1 dig
12 records The history of LindonA tent, five acres, and a house that took twelve years — Lindon, Utah, grew from farmland first worked in 1869 by Wadley Farms, in a basin below Lindon Hill that became a recognized place around 1850. 1 dig
12 records The history of San DiegoA Victorian beach hotel, built 1888 — On Orange Avenue in Coronado, the Hotel del Coronado has stood as a wooden Victorian resort since 1888, raised by Chinese laborers and lit by a world-first electric system. 1 dig
12 records The history of SimsburyThe father built it, the son died for it — Simsbury, Connecticut, grew up along Hopmeadow Street, where colonial farmers, schoolteachers and bank clerks left ground that still carries their names. 1 dig
12 records The history of WashingtonA theater in Washington, now a working stage and museum — This record gathers one point of ground in Washington: Ford's Theatre on 10th Street Northwest. 1 dig
12 records The history of Cedar CityA student killed for being gay — Cedar City, Utah, was founded by Mormon settlers in 1851 on ground later shadowed by the Mountain Meadows Massacre and the Black Hawk War. 1 dig
11 records The history of Deer LodgeA working state prison on Conley Lake Road — Deer Lodge's modern record centres on Conley Lake Road, where a mid-20th-century lake lodge gave way to the current Montana State Prison, built 1974-1979 to replace the city's old downtown penitentiary. 1 dig
11 records The history of Elk RidgeThe tank that took a life on Elk Ridge Drive — Elk Ridge, Utah, has been its own city since 1971, but one record here traces a single lot from farmland platted in January 2021 to a house built in 2025, marked in between by a garage explosion that killed a 19-year-old in 2023. 1 dig
11 records The history of North MonoA gold-rush ghost town, frozen in decay — North Mono's recorded ground centres on Bodie, the gold-rush town founded after prospector W. 1 dig
11 records The history of BeaverThe highway that outran its own town — Beaver, Utah grew on an alluvial fan by the Beaver River, established as a city in 1856 and marked in turn by conflict, a federal fort, a federal highway, and the ordinary rebuilding that followed each of these. 1 dig
10 records The history of ClearfieldThe junction that became a city, then a base's shadow — Clearfield, Utah began in 1877 as a rail siding platted onto farmland east of the Great Salt Lake, in Davis County. 1 dig
10 records The history of DuchesneA highway stretch outside Duchesne, Utah — Duchesne, Utah, grew up along a route older than its numbering — a wagon road between Heber and Fort Duchesne that became the Victory Highway in 1921 and US 40 in 1926. 1 dig
10 records The history of Heber City SouthA highway above Deer Creek Reservoir — Heber City South lies along US 189 beside Deer Creek Reservoir, Wasatch County land once ruled by the Timpanogos before 1847 settlement. 1 dig
10 records The history of Rocky HillThe land a tavern-keeper's grandfather claimed and never let go — Rocky Hill, Connecticut, grew around ground first claimed by John Robbins in 1638 and held by his descendants until 1914. 1 dig
10 records The history of BakerA mountain range in eastern Nevada — Baker, Nevada sits at the foot of the Snake Range, where a Fremont village of pit houses and granaries stood from about 1220 to 1295 CE. 1 dig
9 records The history of BellevueThe boomtown that kept blowing up — Bellevue sits on a mile-wide Idaho plateau whose silver, lead, and gold mines produced more than $60 million between 1881 and 1893. 1 dig
9 records The history of ChelseaA subdivision the census invented — Chelsea, Alabama sits near Highland Lakes, a subdivision atop Double Oak Mountain defined not by a founding event but by a 2020 census count of 5,239 people, its ground older than its name, resting on Pennsylvanian-age rock and bordered by cemeteries reaching back to 1843. 1 dig
9 records The history of Ralston ValleyRalston Valley was surveyed as a home for nuclear missiles — Ralston Valley, within the Nevada National Security Site, was never settled in the ordinary sense. 1 dig
9 records The history of SedaliaThe tournament the Tour would not adapt to — Sedalia's recorded ground centres on Castle Pines Village, a gated community platted from 1981 around Castle Pines Golf Club, once neighboured by The International, a PGA Tour event built for its thin mountain air that ran from 1986 until the Tour cancelled it outright in 2007. 1 dig
9 records The history of BurleyA quiet road south of Burley — Burley, Idaho, grew up from a Snake River crossing into an incorporated city by 1905, its farms and radio waves marking ordinary decades. 1 dig
8 records The history of DeltaOpen parcel on Delta's grid — This record gathers one piece of ground on Delta's edge, a vacant 40-acre parcel along 500 West, into the wider story of Millard County, Utah — land unsettled by the Walker War and Black Hawk War before Delta itself was platted, and surveyed again in 1922. 1 dig
8 records The history of FranklinvilleA road above the Deep River — Franklinville grew up as a mill town above the Deep River in Randolph County, North Carolina, its ground marked first by a Revolutionary War escape at Faith Rock in 1782, then by milling from 1804, and finally by a historic district recognised in 1984. 1 dig
8 records The history of Los AngelesA retired British ocean liner, now a hotel — At Windsor Way in Long Beach, within the Los Angeles area, stands the RMS Queen Mary, the Cunard ocean liner launched on the Clyde in 1934. 1 dig
8 records The history of PomfretThe girl who died a secret death at nineteen — Pomfret, Connecticut, grew along Pomfret Street, now a historic district, where colonial-era lives and later institutions left their mark on the land. 1 dig
8 records The history of Preston CityA hospital that opened for 95 and closed for none — Preston City grew as the hub of a town whose land came by deed from Uncas's son, its First Congregational Church rooted in 1698. 1 dig
8 records The history of Silver SpringsA desert town at two desert highways — Silver Springs, Nevada, sits where US 50 meets US 95A in Lyon County, a crossroads shaped not by nature but by a 1949 real estate venture. 1 dig
8 records The history of PinedaleDedicated to a man who never read it — Pinedale, Wyoming, sits near Fremont Lake in Sublette County, ground marked by ancient hunting sites and a modern memorial alike. 1 dig
7 records The history of Zephyr CoveA Lake Tahoe shoreline community — Zephyr Cove sits on Lake Tahoe's eastern Nevada shore, its ground tracing Washoe fishing grounds, 1860s settler cabins, and a named town after its 1930 post office opened. 1 dig
7 records The history of SteinauerPrairie families raised a church to hold their dead and living together — Steinauer grew from German-immigrant farm families who opened Rinne Cemetery in 1868 and Salems Cemetery in 1869, then raised Salem United Church of Christ in 1879. 1 dig
4 records The history of HerrimanA school that moved towns before it opened — Herriman, Utah, grew from open field into subdivisions such as Rosecrest Place, where houses on West Larawood Lane were built in 2006. 1 dig
3 records The history of Las VegasMesquite buried its old ground and rebuilt on higher land — This record gathers ground connected to Las Vegas through Long Iron Lane, near Mesquite, Nevada, where the Virgin River once flooded the original 1890s townsite, forcing its people to higher ground and later routing the Las Vegas Freeway through the same flood-prone stretch. 1 dig
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