Run 150 years ago this weekend, the inaugural Kentucky Derby ... the first horse from out west to travel east and compete in what is now Churchill Downs, the derby’s home. Mollie’s grandmother ...

Of the 350 captured and enslaved African men, women, and children, roughly 150 died on the journey west ... Thirteen years earlier, the London-based Virginia Company had sent three ships ...

“During the spring and early summer tornadoes are likely to occur between the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario. On April 3 of last year conditions were right. The first tornado struck at 1:10 P.M ...

Long before visitors toured Alcatraz or famous inmates like Al Capone arrived to serve time, the small island acted as the first fortress and military prison on the West Coast. In 1861 ...

But over the last 50 years, researchers have uncovered more details about the Wilsons. Georgeanna Greer—a San Antonio pediatrician and ceramics collector-aficionado—was passionate about ...

“I WAS glad to get away from Darlington on Whit Monday,” wrote A Special Correspondent in the Darlington & Stockton Times 150 years ago this week. “It was the big market, our country cousins ...

Archaeopteryx, often hailed as the first birds, lived during the Jurassic Period, roughly 150 million years ago. Over 160 years ago, the discovery of the first Archaeopteryx fossil began to fill ...

The following events happened on these dates in West Virginia history. To read more, go to e-WV: The West Virginia ...

States such as West Virginia were left limping after mines ... Dave Hatfield, who was a locomotive engineer for 30 years, agreed. Instead of leaving his hometown like almost everybody else ...

Hundreds of former OVMC employees and community members alike watched the historic hospital’s story unfold during the ...

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