On Nov. 7, 1885, the California Southern Railroad completed a crucial section of track that finally connected San Diego to ...

While many enslaved people tried to escape when what's formally known as "chattel slavery" was legal in the United States, ...

Mon Valley Railroad Historical Society’s next open house will be Dec. 13-14, and they are located inside the Mountaineer Mall.

Auburn, New York, was Harriet Tubman’s chosen home. There are ongoing efforts to keep her work and legacy alive, specifically ...

Firefighters worked for hours to put out the flames and salvage what they could from the 170-year-old home on East Town ...

West Virginia once had a truly bustling train town in the New River Gorge, but the town has since become a hidden gem of a ...

The Templeton Historical Museum Society celebrated Founders Day, commemorating the arrival of the first passenger train in Templeton back in 1886.

The road was never completed, largely due to the “financial revulsion” of 1873 and the resistance of the Housatonic Railroad.

One of the largest collections of maps on earth is in Milwaukee. With about 2 million different items, the American ...

A historian's hunch about what might lie hidden within the walls of a Japanese church in Salt Lake City led congregants to ...

History came alive this weekend at the Dickinson County Historical Museum in Spirit Lake as they debuted their newest exhibit: “The Depot Project.” The project displays the history of the railroad in ...