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Even the cemeteries in Lexington are historically significant, with Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery serving as the final resting place for generations of notable Virginians. These surroundings ...
Lexington, Virginia isn’t just another charming southern town – it’s a treasure hunter’s paradise where the buildings themselves are artifacts and every store window beckons with the siren song of ...
MOUNT HOLLY, Pa. (WHTM) — A historic Civil War-era church in Cumberland County has officially reopened. The historic Mount Tabor AME Zion Church located in Mount Holly was first founded in the ...
While Camp Reynolds was never needed during the Civil War — it later became an infantry camp — several of the original buildings, including the Bake House and a Victorian-era officer’s home ...
The Kent County Board of Commissioners emphasized the importance of the county's SafeChem drop-off sites on Thursday after someone used it to safely dispose of an active Civil War-era cannonball.
KENT COUNTY, Mich. — Last week, workers at a SafeChem drop-off site came across something they don't usually see: A Civil War-era cannonball. The Kent County Department of Public Works (DPW ...
But hulking Yedi Kule castle was a prison where Communist sympathizers were tortured and executed during Greece’s 1946–49 Civil War. Tens of thousands died in the early Cold War-era battles ...
Historians say that as many as 400 Yedi Kule prisoners were executed during the Civil War. The AP reports that tens of thousands also died in the early Cold War-era battles with assassination ...
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Workers were installing benches at a park in the ancient Greek port city of Thessaloniki when their excavator pushed brown soil off a fragile white skull. They turned ...
The U.S. Attorney’s Office filed a civil forfeiture action against a rare Civil War-era firearm believed to have been unlawfully removed from the Springfield Armory. The firearm, a U.S ...