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History came alive Tuesday for visitors to Galveston’s historic 1838 Menard House as living history interpreters regaled ...
Was Significant With Military Railroad During Civil War, But Then All That Disappeared Wednesday, January 29, 2003 In 1861, Union Mill Road was a dirt wagon track used primarily by local farmers.
Here’s a disputed story from Columbia. In the summer of 1935, H. Clifton Thobahn wrote about a tunnel at Wright’s Ferry ...
LAPORTE | Spectators will be able to see a Civil War "skirmish" today and Sunday at the Hesston Steam Museum's annual Civil War Railroad Days event. The event, which runs from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m ...
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman Mon, February 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM UTC ...
Austin tiptoed through the Civil War. The major battlefields lay hundreds of miles away. Much of the Texas capital's business was put on hold. Union and Confederate sympathizers skirmished in the ...
The Battle of Cold Harbor was the Confederacy’s last major Civil War victory. ... The city was home to a key railroad junction, ... a map-maker for the Union Army during the American Civil War.
🚔 Baltimore homicide map Aegis. 10 Civil War-era piers in Susquehanna River demolished by Amtrak, ... Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Bridge over the Susquehanna River.
During the Civil War, there were upwards of 10,000 battles and skirmishes, many of them unnamed. This marker will now stand as a symbol of the events that happened 161 years ago.
Daniel Toomey toured the the historic roundhouse building of the Baltimore and Ohio (B&O) Railroad Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. The museum was marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with ...
This secret Civil War sabotage mission was doomed from the start. In the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862, Union volunteers attempted to commandeer a train and ride it to a Southern stronghold ...
Historian and author Robert M. “Bert” Dunkerly of Richmond, Va., will present an online program on “Civil War Railroads” 6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 19, for the Inland Empire Civil War Round Table.