The movement of people and modern transportation shapes the way our cities are established and developed. For Bowling Green, its nearness to Barren River played a critical role in its early history, ...
BATH, N.Y. (WETM) — 2025 marks the 200th year of the Erie Canal and, at the time, the connection of New York State to the ...
On Thursday, April 17, join College of DuPage Associate Professor of History John Paris for “Never Pursued: J.F. Glidden and the Underground Railroad.” The presentation, held in honor of former ...
The first Buddhist churches of any kind in the country were built in the Bay Area in the early 1850s by Chinese migrant ...
A church in a historic New Jersey town was being restored for a theater company's use. Contractors found a letter from 1891 ...
In the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania sits a town that looks like it belongs in the Alps. Jim Thorpe, formerly called Mauch ...
The month after Cape Girardeau’s own railroad builder — Louis Houck — passed away, residents here received word of the death of another entrepreneur who helped establish reliable train ...
The cemetery is Minnesota’s newest landmark on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. Hare was a black Union soldier during the American Civil War before re-enlisting with the ...