Sam Houston Kissing Bur Oak
Sam Houston's flamboyant style made his politicking an entertainment event. When he orated to the cro...

Sagamore Hill Dogwood
Teddy Roosevelt was a renowned ornithologist, an expert on and hunter of big-game animals, but...

Kitty Hawk Live Oak
Wilbur and Orville Wright were two brothers from the heartland of America with a vision as sweeping as the...

Sagamore Hill Paper Birch
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential achievements are impressive. In foreign affairs he led us into the arena of

Bartram's Garden Golden Raintree
The most frequently quoted explanation of Bartram's conversion to botany, however, is from Cre...

Wright Brothers Sweetgum
The Wright brothers had been fascinated by the idea of flight from an early age. In 1878 their father, a bishop ...

Bartram's Trail Live Oak
The appointment, with its accompanying annual stipend of fifty pounds, enabled Bartram to make a lon...

Bartram's Garden Lilac
Bartram went into the wild, collecting plants for his English patron and himself. Word of Bartram's collecting...

Charles Lindbergh Red Maple
Raised in Little Falls, Minnesota , Charles Lindbergh would later recall gazing at the sky through the trees at hi...

Fort Matanzas Live Oak
The European history of Fort Matanzas National Monument begins with an incident almost 200 years before th...