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The Bostwick House in Bladensburg, Maryland connects to the town's origins as a transatlantic shipping port dating back to the 1740s.

In February 1960 a deputy watched a man burn belongings from Zora Neale Hurston's Fort Pierce home, off Route 1 — and her gravestone went unmarked.

Soul City, NC today is a ghost town of a never-finished African American utopia, marked by a rusted sign and a vandalized clinic.

Gum Springs began in 1833 when formerly enslaved West Ford bought 214 acres near Alexandria, VA, a half mile off Route 1.

The John Coltrane mural is one of Mural Arts Philadelphia's works; founded by Jane Golden in 1984, it paints 50-100 murals a year.

A James Farmer biography: a Spotsylvania marker honors the Freedom Rider whose fight for racial equality shaped Route 1 in Virginia.

Pocahontas Island in Petersburg, VA is a 70-acre site, one of the nation's earliest free African American communities on the Appomattox.

When I unexpectedly found myself spending ten days on a silent meditation retreat in Thailand, it revised the narrative on how my six-month backpacking trip would play out.

I celebrated several different New Years within a much smaller time frame. How? By traveling, of course.