When the pioneers settled in Utah in the 1800s one of the most important jobs in the town was the blacksmith. At This Is The Place Heritage Park you can interact with the artisans and tradesmen see ...

Polen Farm, a historic 19th-century farmhouse, barn and gazebo on 15 acres, operated by the city of Kettering Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Department traces its roots to early pioneer days.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - Officials in a southern Indiana county hope to have a farmstead that was settled nearly 200 years ago added to the National Register of Historic Places. Monroe County ...

A local cabinet shop donated this wooden box for the remains. It was inscribed with, “Here lies remains known only to God, Brentwood Poor Farm, circa 1841 – 1868”. Photo by Robbin Ray/University of ...

In the 1800s, the United States was full of chestnuts. Then, in 1904, someone accidentally introduced a fungus from Asia that wiped out the entire population of chestnut trees on the East Coast. More ...