Ashmore Estates has earned a reputation as one of the most haunted places in Illinois, and after digging into its history, it's not hard to understand why! Now that Halloween is just days away, I'm on a haunted places kick.
During the Roaring Twenties, Prohibition seemed here to stay. Then the economy collapsed, and the “noble experiment” crumbled along with it. Disenchantment with Prohibition had been building almost from the moment it first took effect in 1920. Politicians continued drinking as…
On November 11, 1926, federal and state highway officials meet in North Carolina and adopt a numbered highway system for the 48 continental United States. Among the newly designated interstate highways is the legendary Route 66. The 2,400-mile route linked existing roads and unpaved…
An Iron Age ruler who historians presumed was a king has been found to have been a woman. For years experts thought Verica, a British ruler central to the Roman invasion, was a man. But in a discovery that rewrites…
A gallery of hundreds of engraved motifs and dozens of prehistoric animal images has been found in a cave in Spain, where they had gone unnoticed despite the cave being a popular tourist attraction. Josep Maria Vergès at the Catalan…
More than 700 years ago, Kublai Khan, founder of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), ordered the construction of a new capital. Around Qionghua Island, now part of Beijing's Beihai Park, a vast imperial city took shape, laying the foundations for Beijing's emergence as…
TEL GEZER NATIONAL PARK, Israel (WKRC) — An American student in Israel made a surprising, 3,300-year-old find during a school field trip to an ancient archaeological and historical site, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) shared in a translated press release. "During…
With the support of Swan Hill Rural City Council, the Lions Club of Lake Boga is leading an ambitious project to preserve an important piece of Australia’s wartime history, restoring a rare World War II Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)…
Post Register - Manage Subscription (Pay Your Bill, Vacation Request, Update Account Info) The American flag that draped the casket of an unidentified Union soldier recovered from Manassas National Battlefield Park is folded as the soldier is laid to rest with…
The Croton Chronicle Croton History: The Hessian Hills School. A talk by Village Historian Marc Cheshire at the Croton Free Library, Thurs Nov 12. The Hessian Hills School was an influential progressive school in Croton-on-Hudson from 1925 to 1952. It was founded in…
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