This maple tree has become a tourist must-see and it’s located right on Route 1! If you are lucky enough to travel through Littleton, Maine, before all the trees have filled with leaves, you will see this unique piece of artwork by local Virgil Farrar. What started out as a whimsical project for his grandkids, […]
The largest 3-D scale model of the solar system in the western hemisphere is located in Maine along route 1. Driving nearly 100 miles and see all celestial bodies except the Pluto model which is located in the Houlton Tourist Information Center and the sun, right from your car! If you drive from end to […]
These colleges go way back. Most of them are older than our nation and have grown to become enormously important in so many facets of life as we know it in the United States. Six of the eight colleges in the Ivy League are on Route One!
There is an endless list of Auto sale, rental and repair places on Route One, but not that many with Route One in their name. This fine establishment in the urban core of Metro NYC has been around since 1977 – about half as long as Route one itself!
Our first two US Presidents, George Washington and John Adams rented their homes in Washington, DC. At the initiative of Washington, a plan was put forward to build a Presidential mansion in the Capital at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Washington laid the cornerstone for the building in 1792. It would become the largest home in […]
The Cabot Theatre in Beverly, MA, originally opened on December 8, 1920 as the Ware Theatre. Early advertisements hailed the theater as “the most impressive auditorium of its size east of New York” and “The Golden Theatre Beautiful.” The theater was built by Harris and Glover Ware, who also operated the nearby Larcom Theater. They […]
The Duo Multicultural Arts Center building opened in 1889 as a dance and catering hall. The building comprised restaurants, meeting halls, and residences. John Philip Sousa, the famous American composer, established one of the first musicians’ unions in the building’s ballroom. The ballroom was converted into a theater in the 1930s and was named the […]
Crane Beach was formed in 1945 as a gift of 1,000 acres from the estate of Richard T. Crane, Jr. after his death to the Trustees of Reservations, Massachusetts’ largest preservation and conservation nonprofit. The 1,000 acres was most of the current Crane Beach to the dunes of Castle Neck, with a further 350 […]
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