Colonial Beach is an old town on the Potomac River in northeastern Virginia. It is near the birthplaces of Presidents Washington and Monroe. During the 19th Century it was a very famous beach resort. Alexander Graham Bell maintained a summer home in Colonial Beach.  When the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was built it opened up the ocean beaches of eastern Maryland,…...

Highlands Ranch was once an old Louisiana Purchase-style ranch developed into a huge planned suburb 12 miles south of Denver in 1981. The 22,000-acre master-planned community had a population of 105.000 (2020 census), with many neighborhoods. As developments appeared, they often carried their own names, creating a series of segmented neighborhoods throughout Highlands Ranch. Plans for Highlands Ranch include a…...

Hoschton is a village of about 1600 people that is northwest of Atlanta and east of Buford. This is a very rural area but just off of I 85. Braselton is another nearby town of about the same size.   Jackson County courthouse in Jefferson Photo of Jackson County Courthouse, located in Jefferson, Georgia, courtesy of Wikipedia and Calvin Beale…...

Redding is a city of 90,000 in north central California.  It is the county seat of Shasta County and experiences hot summers and wet winters which are conducive to its farming and ranching lifestyle. This north state area provides water to Southern California from the Shasta Dam, which in turn provides great outdoor recreation opportunities to the area....