Neely explains Knoxville's rich Irish heritage, highlighting the impact of Irish immigrants on the city's early development.

In the 1850s and 1860s, Kilgubbin was often mentioned in the pages of the Tribune and other Chicago newspapers. The name ...

The heroic conductor on the Underground Railroad was reared on the site in the wilderness of Maryland’s Eastern Shore.

At a presentation on Thursday, historian Karen Sieber will share her findings on Minnesota's connection to freeing enslaved Black Americans via the Underground Railroad in the mid-1800s.

In all 30,000 slaves fled to Canada, many with the help of the underground railroad - a secret network of free blacks and ...

Pioneer T.D. Stimson kicked off the lumber rush in the Muskegon River Valley Michigan and leaves behind several ghost towns.

Stumphouse Tunnel in Walhalla could have changed the Upstate. Since then, it's become the site where Clemson cured blue ...

In greeting members of a full-house audience, David Thomas set the scene for the evening’s topic, the Underground Railroad in ...

The Seymore Home in Whitney Point This Whitney Point home was owned by George Seymore in the late 1850s and was a spot along the Underground Railroad network. During that time most people who ...

On Oct. 3, 1873, the Columbia, Tenn., Herald and Mail reported "Hoggatt Clopton and Jesse Perkins Clopton, Arkansas planters, ...

Former Fond du Lac Mayor Isaac Brown built the Octagon House in 1856, and it almost didn't survive the 1970s. Here's the ...

The influx of laborers required to operate mills during the early 1800s are responsible for shaping the culturally diverse population of the city.