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1822: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding: Remarks, Tuesday, May 21st At 12:30 Boarded the American Brig Aurilla Howland, 19 days from Baltimore

The city was filled with odd fellows, wise men, druids, and elks in the late 1800s, though it was all hush-hush.

It was 51 years ago that Betty Madara of Selbyville first invited the community to her home for what had started as a simple family egg hunt.

Keystones principal resigns, a casserole catastrophe, a new director of schools and more were reported on this day in Johnson City history.

One of our seemingly never-ending projects at the historical society is to document the lives of the many sea captains who made South Portland their home. We take a look this week at Capt. Horace F. Davis, who lived with his family at 131 Ocean St. in Knightville. Horace F. Davis was born circa 1840 […]

George Washington probably never chose to celebrate his birthday in Laredo, Texas. Nor was he even alive by the time Laredo threw him his first birthday part

April 6, 2021 Rufus William Joseph of Lewes passed away Tuesday, March 30, 2021, at Cadia Renaissance in Millsboro.   Rufus was born Aug. 4, 1939, in Lewes. He was the son of the late Moulten and Blanche Joseph.  He graduated from Lewes High School in 1957. In his younger years he worked in construction, operating heavy equipment. In the 1980s he started working in the mobile home industry and started his own business, B & R Transporters Inc. He also worked quite a few summers at th...

Moswetuset Hummock, 2020. [Mark Jarzombek] My wife and I, as relative newcomers to Massachusetts, decided to immerse ourselves more firmly in local history, and an internet search brought us to a website about Moswetuset Hummock. The next day, we drove to the South Boston shore, parked in a small lot, and walked up the hill. Heavily wooded, the hummock faces the Atlantic, backing into a tidal flat at the mouth of the Neponset River. It is not particularly tall, but despite ongoing efforts to dr...

a- When Sarah Palin told Tea Partiers not to party like its 1773, numerous clueless people on the left responded "You mean 1776!" As I am by far not the first to point out, the Boston Tea Party took place in 1773, when a group calling themselves the Sons Of Liberty, dressed up as Indians for the sake of anonymity, and threw chests of tea in the harbor. I say dressed as Indians, but the Sons of Liberty have been "retconned" into dressing as "native Americans" in many modern histories. Which is...