Throughout its history, the 76-square-mile island of Catalina has played host to Native Americans...

The Chicago Great Western Railway (CGW) was a Midwestern line that operated in Illinois, Iowa, Mi...

Florida in the late 1800s was a paradise waiting to be discovered. During this period, two vision...

Singer Castle Revisited is a fresh look at this castle's rich 100-year history with many new stor...

The story of whales and the whalers who followed them is inextricably tied with Long Island's ric...

Streetcar service arrived in Philadelphia in the 1850s, shortly after the consolidation of the ci...

Mount Pleasant--Samuel P. Brown must have thought the name perfect when he chose it for his count...

Today's Jackson is an active and vibrant Sierra foothills town that has grown from its early root...

In 1905, the New York Times called it 'the Castle of Mysteries,' and rightly so. Located on Dark ...

Rocklin is a town built on and named for granite rock. Forty-niners headed for Placer County gold...

Encompassing 27 square miles, Dallas Fort Worth International is one of the world's largest and b...

Maine

Early Utah pioneers passed through the area that is now Green River and decided that the land wou...

Woodley Park celebrates the history of one of Washington D.C.'s most sought-after addresses. Once...

The history of Porter County goes back several centuries. The area now known as Porter County was...

As early as 1867, Fort Worth held promise as an ideal stockyards. Making their way to northern ma...

Strategically located at the joining of the Hudson and Hoosac Rivers, Stillwater was the site of ...

McKinney's very first settlers began arriving from Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee in the early...

Friendship. Loyalty. Charity. These are the values of the Native Sons of the Golden West, the org...

Hudson, with its scarlet past, is still intriguing in many ways. It is the new go-to destination ...

Established in 1748, Frederick County's fascinating heritage was shaped by agricultural, commerci...

Bellevue, Ohio, is situated on the corner of four counties-Erie, Huron, Seneca, and Sandusky-whic...

I know a Jew fish crier down on Maxwell Street with a voice like a north wind blowing over corn s...

German Milwaukee

The Land Act of 1796 opened the gates for a flood of settlers into the lands of the Upper Ohio Ri...

The Sunshine State has a rich maritime history spanning more than five centuries. Tragically, par...

Like many small towns, Oakboro experienced its development and growth because of the coming of th...

Port Costa may be a quiet place now, but it wasn't always thus. The town was born in 1879, when t...

Struthers is the story of a small town in northeastern Ohio. The town began with the stumbling st...

Nestled in the shadow of beautiful Mount Ascutney and bordering the banks of the Connecticut Rive...

Daphne, the Jubilee City, is home to people who came to partake of the rich resources of Mobile B...

Mercer Island occupies a unique geographic position situated in Lake Washington, just 15 minutes ...

Professional baseball teams in Toledo, Ohio, were first known as the Mud Hens-for the local marsh...

The Colorado Desert lands that became Riverside County in the 19th century were home to diverse b...

Bordentown

At the mouth of Sandusky Bay on Lake Erie sits the city of Sandusky, Ohio. Described in a 1940 Li...

The story of Butte is the story of underground mining. In the early part of the 1900s, Butte had ...

Organized as a town in 1787, Woodstock has since been defined by a triangle of three distinct and...

Incorporated in 1847 on the banks of the Merrimack River, Lawrence, Massachusetts, was the final ...

Warrensburg, Missouri, was destined to be more than a one-horse town. When Martin Warren set up h...

Few Southern cities have stronger claims to fame than Fort Lauderdale. As one of the great vacati...

Although most Americans have heard of the Auto Train, many have uncertain ideas regarding what it...

The geographic heart of North Carolina, Randolph County has been at the crossroads of history sin...

Plymouth and Whitemarsh Townships began as rural clusters of villages and farmlands. Local indust...

The city of Richmond Heights, located in St. Louis County, is a community rich in history. Incorp...

The Mount Vernon community in Fairfax County, Virginia, draws its name from George Washington's h...

Few high school football programs can match the success of Highlands. Having captured 17 state ch...

Northfield's mountains, abundant forests, and rich agricultural fields along the Connecticut Rive...