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The gold miner’s ideal ensemble in 1850. Lithograph by Currier & Ives, Lost Coast Outpost.
Two brothers writing home to their family in Delaware…
A new petition at Change.org has been started to save the Airy Street Prison in Norristown from being demolished, but will it be enough…
Three treasure hunters believe that a huge batch of lost Civil War-era gold has been found in Pennsylvania and clandestinely taken by the government…
The Raab Collection in Ardmore is selling a personal letter written by Albert Einstein where he argues against the biblical version of the creation of…
The Chester County History Center will be holding Underground Railroad walking tours on multiple dates in July and August that are sure to educate and…
Local historian R. Scott Steele recently opened the doors on the West Grove History Center which honors the town and tells its story through hundreds…
There are several theories on why people leave coins on headstones and one of the local traditions leads all the way back to Benjamin Franklin…
Once considered a massive innovation in public transportation, one area of Bucks County saw an easy way of getting around used a century ago.
The…
The People’s Hall in East Fallowfield, the building constructed in 1845 to ensure that abolitionists had a place to meet without disturbances, is currently…
The Mütter Museum, considered by many to be Philadelphia’s weirdest museum, has housed many medical oddities and arcana for around 160 years, writes…
For the weekend ahead of Juneteenth, 19th-century Black businesses and the underground railroad were highlight around West Chester and other parts of Chester County…
Visitors who are looking to tour the Irish historical markers in the Philadelphia region should not miss the one dedicated to Duffy’s Cut Mass…
Most of the illustrations of Benjamin Franklin’s kite experiment on the outskirts of Philadelphia are riddled with historical inaccuracies, writes Jennifer Ouellette for Ars…
According to several sources, one of the most infamous personalities of the last century may have found his resting place just outside of nearby Bucks…
The sinking of the RMS Titanic 111 years ago on April 15, 1912, left its mark on the ultra-wealthy Widener family here in Philadelphia…
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