Whether you think Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year or you’re a bit more bah-humbug about it all, you have to agree that surviving the holiday season requires a small amount of patience ...

Russell's Garden Center in Wayland is celebrating 150 years of operation as a family-owned business. The business started as ...

The storm hit the central mountain mining districts of the Colorado Territory early in the evening on Sunday, May 21, 1876, ...

A period illustration of the Main Exhibition Building at Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial Exposition, which drew nearly 10 million visitors to Fairmount Park. Held in 1876 in Fairmount Park to celebrate ...

Planning for America’s 100th birthday started in 1866 when John L. Campbell, a math professor in Indiana, approached Philadelphia city officials with the idea to host a grand celebration centering our ...

But Howells and millions of other Americans went to Philadelphia as much to look forward as to look back. Far more thrilling than the wooden spinning wheel was the huge cast-iron wheel—30 feet in ...

Nebraska had 63 counties formed in 1876, as shown by this map. A bird's-eye drawing depicts Omaha in 1876. Wild, wooly … and dusty. A view of Omaha from 20th and Dodge Streets looking southeast in ...

The world came to Philadelphia for the 1876 Centennial Exposition and took home tons of souvenirs. Legions of enterprising vendors hawked every conceivable ephemera and novelty at the massive ...