This area is dripping with history. I'm not kidding. You can hardly drive 5 straight miles without seeing a historical plaque.

This is where so and so general crossed this river with troops for such and such battle in the colonial war. This is where such and such tribe of Indians (the plaque doesn't say Native Americans but sometimes it does list the specific tribe) did this or that thing.

You'll regularly pass buildings that were erected in the early 1800s and drive through towns that were founded in the 1700s and even 1600s.

It's so common that as a resident I know all this and see it all the time but it hardly registers.