US Route 1 doesn’t bypass Washington, DC — it goes straight through the middle of it. The highway enters from Virginia over the 14th Street Bridge, runs north through the monumental core as 14th Street NW, then exits toward Maryland as Rhode Island Avenue NE. For anyone driving the full length of Route 1, DC […]
US Route 1 cuts through North Carolina for 174 miles, from the South Carolina line near Rockingham to the Virginia border outside Henderson. It misses the mountains. It misses the Outer Banks. What it runs through is the Piedmont interior: longleaf pine country, the Research Triangle, tobacco barns, the state capital, and the slow-rolling farmland […]
U.S. Route 1 runs 170 miles through South Carolina, and none of it is the South Carolina anyone comes here for. No Charleston, no Myrtle Beach, no Beaufort. Instead, the highway cuts a diagonal line from the Georgia border to the North Carolina line through the inland state most visitors drive past at 75 mph […]
U.S. Route 1 takes the road less obvious through Georgia. While tourists follow I-95 to Savannah’s squares and River Street, Route 1 cuts inland from the South Carolina border near Augusta and runs south-southwest through 250 miles of piney woods, swamp edge, tobacco country, and small towns that haven’t changed much since the highway was […]
US Route 1 enters Pennsylvania from Maryland at West Nottingham Township and runs northeast for roughly 100 miles through Chester County, Delaware County, Philadelphia, and Bucks County before crossing into New Jersey at Morrisville. It’s the shortest Route 1 state run on the East Coast by miles, but it passes through more American history per […]
New Jersey suffers from an image problem. Sandwiched between New York City and Philadelphia, it’s often dismissed as a mere corridor, a place you pass through rather than visit. The jokes write themselves: industrial wastelands, aggressive drivers, reality TV caricatures. But those who know New Jersey – really know it – understand that these stereotypes […]
Connecticut may be the third-smallest state in the union, but its impact on American history, culture, and innovation far exceeds its modest 5,543 square miles. Nestled between the metropolitan giants of New York and Boston, the Constitution State has carved out a distinct identity that blends Yankee ingenuity with cosmopolitan sophistication, maritime heritage with industrial […]
When most people think of Maine, they conjure images of lighthouses perched on rocky cliffs, lobster shacks serving up fresh catches, and perhaps Stephen King lurking in the shadows of some Victorian mansion. While these snapshots aren’t wrong, they’re woefully incomplete. Maine is a paradox wrapped in fog and tied with a bow made of […]
Richmond is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Incorporated in 1742, Richmond has been an independent city since 1871. The metro area population of Richmond was 1,151,000 in 2024, a 0.96% increase from 2023. Richmond has an endless number of interesting places that were built over 100 years ago […]
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