KAWARTHA LAKES-In the early nineteenth century, Big Bob Channel was the main watercourse linking Sturgeon and Pigeon Lakes, ...

Saratoga County has seen 9 generations come and go in the almost 235 years since it was carved out from Albany County in 1791 ...

This week we honor the lost life of Joseph McCoy, who was lynched on April 23, 1897. This article ran on May 1, 1897, in the ...

In 1856, the Reverend John McKamie Wilson Jr., a Presbyterian minister and entrepreneur interested in clay science, relocated from North Carolina to Texas. There in the Capote Hills—a rural, sparse ...

Among the discoveries is a well-preserved lime kiln, believed to be the first of its kind excavated in Gloucestershire, dating back to between 100 and 200 CE. "The kiln itself is quite rare in ...

Industrial: Parkgate ironworks in the latter half of the 19th century A mysterious defensive ... Swinton Fitzwilliam Pottery Kilns, near Station Street. A hub for pottery from the 18th century, the ...

A quaint 19th-century Cambridge house could be turned into a seven-person house of multiple occupancy (HMO). MATT Architecture Ltd proposes to turn Grafton House in Grafton Street, Cambridge ...

He wears an earring, his clothes seem to owe more to the 1980s New Romantic movement than 19th-Century costume, and from his affairs with women to his lack of deference to his so-called superiors ...

He's often credited as a founder of French gastronomy and of Grande Cuisine (classic French cuisine which was at its most lavish during the 19th Century). However, according to Paul Freedman ...

The United States finalizes the Louisiana Purchase from France, adding the land from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains to its territory. Meriwether Lewis, of the legendary duo Lewis ...

Whoa. What’s with all that traffic on Elm Street? At around 11 a.m. Monday, cars sat bumper to bumper in all three east-bound lanes of Elm Street starting at York. Near the intersection with High ...

In death, however, the 19th-century Habsburg monarch has joined a long list of historical women reimagined in 21st-century popular culture as feminist heroines—much to some historians’ chagrin.