Jesse Lowe was Omaha's first mayor, James C. Dahlman the longest-serving and Jean Stothert the first woman. Soon, John Ewing ...

DEARBORN, Mich. – Griffin Claw Brewing Company collaborated with The Henry Ford in Dearborn to launch three craft beers ...

In 1860, an illegal bet brought the last known captive Africans to U.S. shores aboard Clotilda. Their story is one of tragedy and resilience. Captive Africans are taken by boat to the slave ship ...

The newly unveiled Abraham Lincoln commemorative locomotive No. 1616 and Cheyenne's Big Boy No. 4014 will meet up twice this ...

Lake County lottery players seem to have all the right numbers this month when it comes to the CA$H 5 draw game from the ...

The Lake County Highway Department is closing all lanes of 45th Street between Southwood Drive and White Oak Avenue in ...

Ono shared that Chinese workers were first recruited to work on the railroad. However, those workers would be forced to endure terrible conditions and low pay. “They would challenge their ...

In 2019 he became president of the Historic Pullman Foundation and then dreamed up the idea for Railroad Days ... and the last two Pullman Factory workers in the neighborhood, will show off ...

ALBANY — THE CHINESE IMMIGRANTS WHO HELPED BUILD the Transcontinental Railroad are being honored ... also honoring both the 19th century railway workers and many of their descendants — Asian ...

Location has been Cleveland's potent metallurgical advantage since the mid-19th century, when its situation on Lake Erie at the convergence of numerous railroad lines made it ... blast furnaces in ...

The decade between 1850 and 1860 was one of explosive growth—and ... western expansion demanded an east–west transcontinental railroad. The question in the mid-1850s was which route it should ...

Surrounded by descendants of Chinese railroad workers, supporters, and fellow lawmakers on the ... Kenny Wong’s great-grandfather arrived in the United States in 1860 after he was recruited as a ...