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Kentucky: The Bluegrass State
Kentucky is a state in the southern region of the United states. Kentucky is known for its horse racing, manufacturing, agriculture, mining, transportation, and, of course, University of Kentucky basketball. Kentucky is also know for its music. Native Kentuckian Bill...
Vermont: The Green Mountain State
Vermont is a northeastern state in the New England region of the United States. Vermont is the only state in New England that does not border the Atlantic Ocean. It's surrounded by Massachusetts on the South, New York on the west, New Hampshire on its east, and Canada...
Georgia: The Peach State
Georgia is called the Peach State for a very good reason. Some of the world's best peaches are grown there. Georgia is a southeastern state that has beaches on the Atlantic Ocean. The state has lots of productive farmland and beautiful wooded mountains. Native...
New York: The Empire State
People who know about such things believe that Native Americans came to the area now called New York about thousands of years ago. Their descendants included Native American tribes such as the Mohawk, Algonquin, Cayuga, Oneida, and Seneca nations. In 1624 the Dutch...
Maine: The Pine Tree State
Maine is the northeastern-most state, and it’s known for its rocky coastline, its fishing boats, its seagoing history, its wildlife, its forests, its lighthouses, and its lobsters. Maine is also the endpoint of the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail is the...
Colorado: The Centennial State
Long before recorded history, native hunters tracked bison and now-extinct mammoths and mastodons through what is now Colorado. The first permanent settlements that we know about appeared in the southwest part of the state thousands of years ago; their ancestors built...
Tennessee: The Volunteer State
Today the Homeschool Express rolls to a stop next to Union Station in our hometown of Nashville Tennessee. It’s the same train station that my father took me to when I was a young boy. By that time, passenger trains in Nashville were on their way out because...
Alabama: In the Heart of the Sunny South
Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state that's known for its Southern hospitality, it's sweet tea, it's music, and its football (especially the fierce rivalry between the Auburn Tigers and the Alabama Crimson Tide). The state is also home to significant landmarks from...
Arizona: The Grand Canyon State
It's no wonder that Arizona is called "The Grand Canyon State." The mile-deep canyon, which is carved by the Colorado River is known around the world. But the Grand Canyon isn’t the only amazing place in Arizona. If you’re touring the state, you can see the Monument...
Alaska: America’s Last Frontier
Alaska is bigger than any other state in America. Much bigger. In fact, it's over twice as big as Texas. And it's one-fifth the size of the entire lower 48 states. The first people who lived in Alaska were probably nomadic, which means that they didn't have permanent...