Your city has jobs galore. History s mysteries By Rose DeWolf Daily News Staff Writer History is a great urban asset.
People think it s inspiring to be where something memorable happened long ago.
Fortunately, that s likely to be in a city. People go to Boston to walk where Paul Revere rode, to Hollywood to see where old-time film stars lived, to Montgomery, Ala., to the site of civil rights marches. They come to Philadelphia to gaze at the desks in Independence Hall where the Founding Fathers inscribed the Constitution. Sometimes what happened here is represented by an artifact, like the Liberty Bell. According to the U.S. Travel Data Center, visiting historic sites and museums is the third most popular activity for tourists shopping and outdoor recreation being first and second.