Wilmington has lost countless historic buildings over the years, something that's been well-documented in numerous books, including Beverly Tetterton's "Wilmington: Lost But Not Forgotten" and Susan Taylor Block's "Cape Fear Lost." The reasons these buildings went away are varied, from…
Sen. Ed Markey, center, talks Thursday with Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo; Annie Harris, director and CEO of Essex National Heritage; and Jennifer Hardin, superintendent of Salem Maritime National Historic Site; at the conclusion of a news conference outside the Salem…
A hand-drawn manuscript map that settled an 18th-century property line and later came to symbolize the split between North and South will go under the hammer in Asheville on Thursday. Brunk Auctions is offering the original Mason-Dixon survey chart, drawn…
On Oct. 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland. Video above: Crescent moon sets behind Statue of Liberty in New York The statue was a gift from France to the United States in…
In a new study published in the journal Science Advances, the authors date the early base camp to 13,800 years ago, when it was inhabited by the Late Pleistocene people of Alaska. Related video above: Archaeologists were searching for a lost…
Tom Watson tells the story of the international campaign that brought Joan of Arc to Winchester Cathedral over a century ago – and placed her memorial opposite the bishop linked to her trial. Among the monuments of Winchester Cathedral, one figure…
One of the first pieces in downtown Wilmington's resurgence held a big anniversary 40 years ago. According to an advertisement in the Wilmington Morning Star on Oct. 25, 1986, the Cotton Exchange put on its 10th anniversary festival. It was a chance to show…
A fire swept through the mountaintop retreat built for Adolf Hitler and known as the Eagle's Nest as emergency services struggled to tackle the blaze in snow and wind, and a man was arrested on suspicion of arson, authorities said…
“Salem is in part a story of what happens when a set of unanswerable questions meets a set of unquestioned answers.” – Stacy Schiff, The Witches: Salem, 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, a city that first belonged to the Naumkeag people, was then officially…
A retired tobacco-country farmer looked at a pile of rocks and decided they needed a hotel. And a church. And a theater, too. What kind of retirement hobby ends with an entire town? This one did. He kept stacking stones and…
The town's story and the places that keep it.