As a boy this Allentown native and longtime Front Street resident had seen the Great Flood of May 5, 1862 that had struck by night and killed many of his friends and neighbors. In 1869 a similar ...

Some miners who grew weary of the chase opted to settle down, a choice eased by the Homestead Act of 1862. In addition ... we could have killed a great many woman and children while the war ...

Grafton Ghost Town sits 3.5 miles from Highway 9 through Rockville, on the south bank of the Virgin River. Before Hollywood ...

The Amazon River prawn Macrobrachium amazonicum (Heller, 1862) is widely distributed in South America, from Venezuela to Argentina; it inhabits lacustrine, flood-plain ... in a stretch of the Tietê ...

It’s been 104 years since one of Southern Colorado’s most devastating natural disasters, the Great Flood of 1921.

Union forces under General Ambrose Burnside launched a doomed assault against entrenched Confederates in Fredericksburg, Virginia. This video breaks down one of the most lopsided defeats of the Civil ...

Pennsylvania's Path of the Flood Trail, a 14-mile route along the ... who is 92-years-old who frequents the pathway. It’s also a great place to see the fall foliage each autumn as well.

The Sun did a five-part video series called “The Great Flood of 2006.” In Centralville, the raging waters pushed past VFW Highway and Lakeview Avenue to flood homes as far as W. Sixth St ...

GREAT FALLS, Va. — Nature unleashed its fury at Great Falls this week, as floodwaters surged through the rugged landscape with relentless force. As heavy rain pounded the Mid-Atlantic and state ...

WEST VIRGINIA (WCHS) — A flood watch has been issued for most of the Eyewitness News viewing area Friday ahead of expected storms. The flood watch, issued by the National Weather Service ...

Torrential rain prompted a flash flood emergency in western Maryland Tuesday, and other pockets of significant flash flooding were reported from Pennsylvania and West Virginia. The Weather Channel ...