Earl Spencer has said it was "important" to remember the Great Fire of Northampton as the town begins preparations to marks its 350th anniversary of the inferno.

On Ascension Day, Thursday June 1, 1848, the great fire occurred, which occasioned a loss of $250,000 to citizens of Allentown and others.

The Great Fire of London, 1666 One of his quatrains appeared to eerily predict the Great Fire of London: “The blood of the just will be lacking in London, Burnt up in the fire of ‘66: ...

BAY PORT, MI — During a family trip to a fish festival in Bay Port years ago, Mike Snyder came across a historical marker planted alongside M-25, almost by accident. “Great Fire of 1881” the ...

The Great Spokane Fire in 1889 effectively destroyed the city’s downtown, and, more recently, wildfires destroyed the majority of Malden and Pine City. In 2023, more than 10,000 acres near ...

Chicago after the Great Fire of 1871 accelerated its rise as a dominant metropolis. In Boston, which burned in 1872, the value of land newly topped with better buildings surged.