WATERBORO — Back in 1850, James Leavitt of Alfred built a house in Waterboro at the junction of five roads. Little Ossipee Lake was not far away. James, a prosperous businessman, lived there ...

To most of us, New Year’s Day means black-eyed peas and cabbage, football and maybe even a hangover — it's the winding down of the holiday season. But in the mid-1850s, it was the day that ...

In 1850, John Walker upended his life in Central Missouri to travel to California as one of thousands of gold prospectors. Having recently proposed to his girlfriend Eliza, ...

In a recent interview with Game Rant, actor Kim Coates talked about life in 1850s America, the setting for Netflix's American Primeval series.

WEBVTT FRITZ: MANY TOWN HISTORIESRECORD HOW PEOPLE LIVEDDAY-TO-DAY IN COLONIAL TIMES,BUT PENACOOK HISTORY HAS ASECTION THAT OUTLINES THE DAYTODAY STORY OF HOW -- THE DAYTODAY STORY OF HOW PEOPLE ...

Located at 523 St. Ann St., the house is designed to replicate daily life in 1850 when the Baroness Micaela Almonester de Pontalba designed and built the Upper and Lower Pontalba Buildings, which ...

In 1850, U.S. Census enumerators filled out 345,525 slave schedules supplementing the census and tabulating a total of 3,204,313 enslaved human souls living in the United States of America.