During the 1840s profits began to fall and, in April 1848, it was put up for sale, even though 22 years remained on the lease. The quarry closed in 1970 and, since then, it has flooded and become ...

A portion of the panoramic painting "Grand Panorama of a Whaling Voyage 'Round the World" features New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Lewiston District School #2, or “Hickory Grove School” as it was known at its inception, has stood on that spot since the 1840s. On Jan. 18, 1842, a special meeting of the inhabitants of ...

Over 170 years ago, in 1840s lived a man and his wife, who fostered a significant change by empowering women through education, and tactfully battled caste discrimination. This film is the story of ...

People can get a sense of what it would have been like to travel the world's oceans in the 1840s by visiting the Minnesota Marine Art Museum regularly over the next year. On exhibit is the longest ...