The rural town of Austin is located in the geographic center of Nevada, in the heart of the Great Basin Desert. In 1862, a wrangler found silver ore there while cutting firewood for a nearby Overland
The area of what is now the city of Markesan had its humble beginnings as early as 1844, when John B. Seward erected the first homestead in what would become a thriving community. In 1849, the area wa
Marco Island projects prominently from Florida’s mainland at the peninsula’s southwestern fringe, where the waters of the Everglades and the Gulf of Mexico commingle. Its tropical climate, verdant lan
There are few places that have undergone a more radical transformation during the past half-century than Marco Island, Florida. Once a pristine tropical paradise with only a few hundred residents, Mar
