Tidbits of History was created in June of 2013 as a place to expose odds and ends of our history – both of our family and our country. Evey so often we run across something we didn’t know before and say “That’s interesting! I wonder how many people know that?”
It started with the Republic of Florida – an actual, if short lived, Nation in the present southern part of the United States. We had never heard of it. Then, the Gadsden Purchase. We knew about that (we thought) from traveling about and through the area. But the history – how and why it came about – that caught our attention.
It seems like there are lots of nooks and quirks in our history, and those are some of the things we want to write about.
We… are a retired couple living in far north-western Arizona, about 100 road miles from Las Vegas, Nevada. Our climate is almost the same as ‘Vegas – same elevation and same micro-climate – so, hot and dry most of the year.
We can be reached through the contact form on this website.