LANSING, Mich. (WHDH) — People were cleaning out a family member’s house in Lansing, Michigan when they came across a unique discovery last Saturday. The group found what they believed to be a live ...

The Flats were initially established as a residential area for a heavily Irish population in the mid 1800s. Many of the workers that built the Ohio and Erie Canal, which jumpstarted the development of ...

Question: Could you please tell us something about the oak chair seen in this photo? It was in my husband's family for years and passed from his sister to us. When she had the chair, she kept a pillow ...

FOCUS ON HISTORY – An Irish immigrant woman who lived and worked in Amsterdam became a national union leader in the 19th century. Leonora Kearney Barry wrote. “Day after day, I sat sewing men’s ...

Folk art is art from everyday life that was made for entertainment or display, often by amateur artists. Collectors have focused on game boards, carousel figures, cigar-store Indians, tramp art and ...

For decades long before refrigerators and freezers, hundreds of men trekked to the mountain lakes and ponds in Bear Creek, Back Mountain and Mountain Top for employment during the cold winter months ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver Public Library stores old photos dating back over a century. Some of these photos include old advertisements showing the price of amusement park tickets to hotel rooms from ...

LEELANAU COUNTY, MI -- Each summer visitors are transported back in time to the late 1800s and early 1900s when immigrants first settled along the shores of Lake Michigan. The farmlands that are now ...

Many figural tobacco jars were made in the late 1800s and early 1900s, marked with just the letters “JM” or the letters and the printed word “Bohemia” or “Czechoslovakia.” The jars held loose pipe ...