Maggie Walz, born Margareeta Johanna Konttra Niiranen in Tornio, Finland in 1861, arrived in the US at age 20 with only $7. According to the National Park Service (NPS), she began as…
Virgil Earp, the former Tombstone marshal who survived the 1881 O.K. Corral gunfight, took up homesteading 17 years later. In 1898, he claimed 160 acres near Prescott, Arizona, under federal law, and…
Mahala Ashley Dickerson, who became the first Black female lawyer in Alabama and later the first Black lawyer in Alaska, died in 2007 at the age of 94. The Times of India…
The National Park Service has shared the story of the Walker sisters, six unmarried women who refused to leave their mountain home in what is now Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The…
The U.S. government paid $400,000 to buy out a private petrol station, tourist lodge, and quarry near Capitol Reef National Park in Utah, ending a long-running land conflict. The dispute began in…
A Missouri farming family has received $214,000 for nearly 600 acres of land taken by the federal government in 1970 to create the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. The Blackwell family's farm, known…
A collection of vintage postcards donated to the National Park Service reveals details of early 20th-century life on New Jersey's Sandy Hook peninsula. The 24 colour postcards, part of Paul Koeptchem's estate,…
A concrete weir built in 1953 on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, has blocked sea-run brook trout from their spawning grounds in Fresh Brook for 73 years. The National Park Service now plans to…
In 1922, biologist Olaus J. Murie arrived in Alaska to study caribou, beginning field research that would later influence how scientists understood wildlife as part of interconnected ecosystems. His early work focused…
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation, championed by President Donald Trump, has encountered a new problem. The National Park Service (NPS) partially refilled the pool to flush out its ageing piping system…
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