Freehold is a township of about 31,000 people in New Jersey.  Freehold Borough is the town in the center of the Township, childhood home to Bruce Springsteen. The Battle of Monmouth was fought in what has been preserved as Monmouth Battlefield State Park, which is in Freehold Township. Photo of Monmouth Battlefield State Park preserves a rural, eighteenth century landscape…...

The town of Greeley is on the Front Range of Colorado, about 50 miles north and east of Denver. The city was originally a Utopian experiment called Union Colony, started as a movement based on religion, temperance, and agriculture. The name was later changed to Greeley in honor of Horace Greeley, who popularized the phrase "Go West, young man". The…...

Charlotte, is located in the Piedmont region in North Carolina, and is the county seat of Mecklenburg County.  It has a population of 874,579 (2020 census), and is the most populated county in the state....

Independence is a small town of about 9,400 in southeastern Kansas, very near the Oklahoma border.  The town recently received significant fame for its Independence Public Library (pictured above courtesy of the Library's Facebook page), which was named the "Best Small" library in the country by Library Journal. Part of the reason for the prize was the library's hard journey…...