Ticonderoga, New York: The capture of this fort and the movement of its cannon to Washington’s army provided a vital weapon to a newborn military and forced the British evacuation of Boston.
Dayton, Ohio: Where the Wright Brothers did their planning, initial experimentation and development of a flying machine.
Tuskegee, Alabama: Home of the Tuskegee Institute, a black teachers’ college, first headed by Booker T. Washington and where George Washington Carver did his research in agriculture.