American Revolution

Discovered by a soldier during the Revolutionary War, these springs helped create an iconic South Carolina ginger ale.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Legend has it the mill owner's daughter, Mary Musgrove, helped a Patriot soldier hide behind these falls.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

One of the indelible moments of the American Revolution took place at this location.