Following the American Civil War, a group of freed people fled violence and bought land in Western North Carolina. In the ...

Home to over 50 species of at-risk animals, the NCDEQ called the French Broad River basin "one of the most heavily altered" in Western NC.

The population of Morgan dipped, but it still had the state's 13th-largest population, at 16,064, in 1850. Macoupin and Greene counties also were among Illinois counties with the highest population, ...

Over the last 12 years, a detailed study of the Battle of Brandywine has revealed the routes, roads, skirmish sites and historic buildings and landscapes connected with this critical Revolutionary War ...