Researchers have uncovered a pre-Columbian village and petroglyphs offering evidence of cross-modern-border ties between Sonora and Arizona.
Sitting on the farm outside Kersey, Colo., two 1905 Union Pacific wooden boxcars became the home of a Japanese American family of seven toward the end of World War II. The cars will be restored and ...
March 4, 1859, was not a good day to be out in the Lehigh Valley, or anywhere else in the northeastern U.S. for that matter. “A fine snowstorm is setting in above Albany,” reported the New York Times ...
Laredo was awarded $58.5 million in state funding to eliminate at-grade rail crossings along the Santa Maria corridor, aiming to reduce congestion and improve safety.
“America, so far as concerned physical problems, had changed little… The same bad roads and difficult rivers, connecting the same small towns, stretched into the same forests in 1800 as when the ...
Long before Black History Month became a national tradition every February, Otsego County was part of a network guiding enslaved people toward freedom — the Underground Railroad. Local historian Harry ...
The Second Baptist Church in New Albany, Indiana, served as a stop on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War. Its steeple was a beacon for freedom seekers escaping slavery in Kentucky, located ...
The Blairsville Underground Railroad is planning a 20th-anniversary celebration with a free and public Black History Month Open House on Saturday, Feb. 28, at the BVUGRR History Center, 214 S. East ...
The narrow-gauge locomotive was once the prevalent working machine of the logging industry; designed for the rigors of work, particularly the maneuvering of steep grades and tight curves of the ...
“Working on the Railroad” headlined The Aspen Times on Feb. 13, 1975. In a five-hour transit hearing it was reported “350 people filled the Aspen High auditorium Monday evening for a marathon public ...
BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio — February is Black History Month, and some local organizations throughout the Ohio Valley are taking the opportunity to celebrate and educate. "Black history is American history, ...
For thousands of runaway slaves in the 18th and 19th centuries, the Underground Railroad represented freedom and a chance at a new life with 16 stops on that journey located in some taverns, churches ...