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Manitowoc County’s pioneer farmer, Hiram McAllister, arrived in 1837 and left a lasting legacy
Herald Times Reporter via Yahoo News· 10 months agoHiram McAllister was born on June 20, 1808, in Vermont, son of Francis W. McAllister and Nancy...
Why does Mississippi owe Britain over $10 billion? Will the state ever repay the debt?
Biloxi Sun Herald via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe state of Mississippi still owes Great Britain a staggering amount of money in unpaid loans...
Why Samuel Colt engraved an entire line of revolvers with a Texas Navy battle
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSamuel Colt and his 1851 Navy Revolver. Everyone knows Texas was an independent republic after...
Bedell family left a rich legacy of agriculture and community that's still felt in Manitowoc County...
Herald Times Reporter via Yahoo News· 3 months agoA telegram arrived in Manitowoc from Buffalo, New York, in August 1897 announcing the death of Edwin...
Early Sheboygan County sawmill was reborn at Wade House thanks to Kohler Foundation | Throwback
The Sheboygan Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGREENBUSH - Back in 1843, Thomas J. Townsend and a friend accidentally discovered the site for a...
Slater Mill was site of America's first factory strike 200 years ago | Opinion
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 1 month agoScott Molloy is a University of Rhode Island professor emeritus and founder of the R.I. Labor...
'Perfect and entire ruin': How Tallahassee survived after 1843 inferno | TLH 200
Tallahassee Democrat via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIt’s 5 p.m. on May 25, 1843, in Tallahassee. For the next three hours, the city would be engulfed in...
Western suffragettes: How Colorado, Wyoming women won voting rights decades ahead of nation
The Coloradoan via Yahoo News· 2 years agoI can’t remember where I first heard it, but for years I believed a fairytale. You see, Women in the...
The rise and fall of President Martin Van Buren
CBS News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoOur eighth president - the first born an American citizen - was a polished politician with out-there sideburns, best known for creating our two-party...
Elleda Wilson: Wild scheme
The Daily Astorian, Ore. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 29—An odd tidbit from The Daily Morning Astorian, Sept. 30, 1884: —A novel idea is that of grading for a railroad through a forest with a crosscut saw, and laying the ties on the stumps ...
