Economy Travel
A nearby Bed and Breakfast is a splendid getaway opportunity. The number of newlyweds choosing bed & breakfasts for their honeymoon is on the rise. Perhaps it's the high cost of gas that's forcing couples to consider celebrating their love closer to home or maybe it's simply that the word is out that B&Bs are travel's best kept secret!
Gene Camfield
The Willis Plantation
Mayhurst, Orange, Virginia
The Civil War and Virginia are forever linked in history bringing back recollections of Generals Lee, Jackson and Hill.Although in proximity of six Civil War battlefields, Mayhurst emerged from the war unscathed. Built in 1859 by Colonel John Willis, the house became the headquarters for
General Ambrose Powell (A.P.) Hill, commander of the III Corps of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Virginia. Gen. Hill commanded over 18,000 men from a tent in the front yard over the winter of 1863-64. Lee once said regarding Hill, "Next to Longstreet and Jackson, I consider A.P. Hill the best commander with me. He fights his troops well and takes good care of them."
Mark Twain's Hannibal
Garth Woodside Mansion, Hannibal, Missouri
Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Old Jim, the Mississippi River, and Hannibal are names from America's literary history. A trip into the past is the order of the day for those retracing the boyhood days of Samuel Clemens, beginning with a visit to the Mark Twain Museum, touring the Clemens boyhood home and many of the buildings so familiar in his literary works. Then laugh along with Tom Sawyer and catch a glimpse of America through the eyes of Huckleberry Finn at the Mark Twain Himself live show, performed throughout the year.
The Illinois Prairie
The Branson House, Petersburg, Illinois
This large frame "Eastlake Victorian" home was built in 1876 in Petersburg, IL by the Honorable Nathaniel W. Branson, a member of the Illinois State Legislature and an 1876 delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cincinnati which nominated Rutherford B. Hayes for the presidency and resulted in the election that ended the era of Southern Reconstruction.