HISTORICAL TOWN STAUNTON
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My elder Son, Baljit took me to visit Historical town of Staunton located in Virginia, USA on Saturday November 21, 2020. We started from home in Warrenton, Virginia at 9.30 am and after visiting may places returned back home at 21.00 pm on the same day. Details are as under:
Staunton is known for being the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, and as the home of Mary Baldwin University, historically a women’s college. The city is also home to Stuart Hall, a private co-ed preparatory school, as well as the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind. It was the first city in the United States with a fully defined city manager system
As one of the oldest cities west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Staunton’s history spans three centuries. A wide selection of historic attractions, archival collections, old buildings, museums, and Civil War sites are located in and around Staunton. Highlights include the Frontier Culture Museum, an outdoor living history museum providing snapshots of life on the frontier from the 1600s through the mid-1800s in this area. Jumping ahead to the 20th century, take a closer look at our 28th president at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Museum as you take a self-guided tour through seven galleries that explore Wilson’s life and legacy.
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. He also led the United States into World War I in 1917, establishing an activist foreign policy known as Wilsonianism. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations.
PIERCE-ARROW LIMOUSINE
When Woodrow Wilson returned from France after negotiating the Treaty of Versailles in 1919, a new Pierce-Arrow limousine awaited him at the dock in New York to take him back to Washington. The automobile had just been added to the White House fleet. Wilson favored this automobile so much that when he left office his friends purchased it for him to use. The car had received its finishing touches at the plant of the manufacturer, the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company of Buffalo, New York, in June 1919. It was the 120th of the “Series 51” model.
WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM
Museum offers virtual tour of President Woodrow Wilson’s birthplace, a beautiful pre-Civil War manse, his inspiring story as professor, president, and peacemaker. It also show new state-of-the-art interactive World War I trench exhibit complete with lights and sound to experience what life was like for soldiers as they engaged in battle. Authentic weapons and Wilson’s Pierce-Arrow limousine.
FRONTIER CULTURE MUSEUM
The living-history Frontier Culture Museum offers a look at life in early America. The museum displays and enacts the influence of the early settlers on Virginian history.
The museum displays a series of authentic historic farms, each moved from their country of origin and reconstructed at the museum site: an English farm from the 1690s; a German farm from 1710; a Scots-Irish farm from the 1730s; a West African compound that recreates life from the 1700’s; and several American structures dating from the mid-nineteenth century. The exhibits depict how the descendants of colonists from England, Ireland, and Germany created a common, American identity.
Frontier-culture-museumThe open-air museum also includes a blacksmith’s forge, livestock, and agricultural fields with authentic period crop-raising methods.
SCHOOL FOR DEAF AND BLIND
The Virginia School for the Deaf and the Blind, located in Staunton, Virginia, United States, is an institution for educating deaf and blind children, first established in 1839 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly. The school accepts children aged between 2 and 22 and provides residential accommodation for those students aged 5 and over who live outside a 35-mile radius of the school.