Best Historical American Cites to Visit

Filed in archive Quick introduction on March 2, 2010

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What are the best historical American cities to visit? That's not an easy question to answer. I think the oldest city in the US is St. Augustine, Florida. Lots of vacation deals are available if you want to tour the city (or spend some time on the beach down there).

St. Augustine is the kind of historic that mostly means "old." The residents look at you and say "We've been here a long time, and that makes us historic." They're right. And St. Augustine is a nice place. But if history is the path of great events through time, well then not much of great consequence has ever happened in St. Augustine (apart from the fact that it was build there in the first place). For that sort of history you have to go to the major cities of the America's eastern seaboard - places like Charleston, SC, Chesapeake, VA, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. Those are the places that shaped commerce and politics in the early days of Americna history (and for generations to come).

Of course, I'm not arguing that cities further west aren't historic. The path of great events moved West - through places like Memphis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Houston, and Chicago.

Like I said, it's not an easy question to answer.