Archaeologists at George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate found a hoard of 18th-century bottles buried in an old cellar ...

Across from the park stands Berkeley Springs Castle, a structure so unexpected in the West Virginia landscape that your brain might need a moment to process it. This genuine stone castle, complete ...

Standing proudly on B Street, Piper’s Opera House represents the sophisticated side of Virginia City’s boomtown days. This isn’t some modest frontier theater—it was one of the most acclaimed ...

Two Arizona high school students were shot while camping off State Route 87. Cases like this are rare, but they do have things in common.

Unlike popular pumpkin or apple, there are lots of old-school pie flavors that have been forgotten about. But some are definitely due a revival.

Archaeologists in Virginia are trying to identify the remains of four Confederate soldiers who were killed in the Civil War.

Richmond land may hold 700+ unmarked graves, possibly of Confederate soldiers. City plans site access for descendants after ...

Built in 1665, Bacon’s Castle is the nation’s oldest brick dwelling, historians say. Preservation Virginia acquired the castle at auction in the 1970s “and meticulously researched, restored and ...

The 9 remaining states conduct multi-winner contests for some state legislative seats: Arizona, Idaho, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, and West Virginia.

"I went on Ancestry.com, the Ross County Historical Society and the Genealogy Society in Chillicothe ... He died on camp in Clarksburg, Virginia in 1862 and he was 17 years old." ...