Remembering the 118th anniversary of the 1908 Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, the Boyertown Area Historical Society ...

A 1908 fire on North Union and Madison streets in Natchez destroyed the second Rose Hill Baptist Church; a new church rose that year, while two nearby houses still stand today.

Editor’s Note, 7/8/2025, 12:13 p.m.: This story has been updated to include information on the 1995 flash flooding in North Texas. Headlines across the globe continue to proliferate as more bodies are ...

On Jan. 12, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt used the Antiquities Act of 1906 to declare the Grand Canyon a national ...

If it had not been for lunch hour, more workers would have perished or been injured when the roof at the Lehigh Valley roundhouse in North Wilkes-Barre collapsed, killing one man on Oct. 20, 1908.

If there was ever a doubt that Naperville was once a one-horse town, this “bird’s eye view” should dispell it. The postcard image was taken in 1908 and looks toward the northeast. At the time, the ...

Wilkes-Barre Fire Department’s aerial truck at the scene of a fire at the Bennett Building on Public Square on May 21, 1912. Published in the Wilkes-Barre Record on May 22, 1912. Wilkes-Barre City ...