Take a historic walk in your city.

“I’d highly recommend taking this walking tour I found on Viator. It lasted about two hours and hit all of the major historical landmarks with quite a bit of humor thrown in. This tour also provided a great history of everything we walked by and gave us a good lay of the land. [...] We stopped by Elfreth’s Alley the oldest, continually habited, residential street in America and now a National Historic Landmark. The oldest home dates back to 1703. I love how cute this street is and that it was decorated for fall while we were there. The homes are quaint, but I don’t think I’d want people oogling my house all day long or tour groups outside while I’m trying to watch tv.”

“What walking through streets—some familiar, some new—meant for me is that I felt instantly rooted in the land I walked on. The daily routines and buildings and types of people that find themselves on these streets added to this unique sense of Place, yes, and also the history of these places and the fact I was on an island, part of the eastern woodland ecosystem that’s been not quite obliterated by concrete and steel. My explorations soon meant that I was reading books on the history of the city and was drawn to exhibits at museums about the city. Maybe it was my years of park service training or the fact that I too was working at a museum and monument in New York, but my commute soon became to be about Place. How these neighborhoods and business are all inter-tangled in history and the present.”