History Blog 

This photo, taken by Anna Schnitzlein, shows what is believed to be oil drilling operations on Dr. Fred Vernette’s property circa 1902....

Nearly hidden by trees during the summer, this grand structure stands on the hillside on the northwest corner of U.S. 61 and Route MM in...

Willie Wright made this doll house for his granddaughters during the 1980s. His daughter, Penny Wright Wiley, still has the house on...

At right: Florence Calvert Thorne, Leavenworth (Kansas) Times, Sept. 22, 1919. Newspapers.com MARY LOU MONTGOMERY In 1918, Florence...

This house at 800 Broadway, photographed by Charles Doty, shows the residence of Thomas and Fannie Gee, beginning around 1900 and...

This is the former Wells building, on the southwest corner of Fifth and Broadway in downtown Quincy, Ill. In this building from 1905 to...

This photo shows Mark Twain Produce at the northeast corner of Third and Church. The building originally housed the Elliott wholesale...

This building served as Hannibal's courthouse in 1888, when Lincoln Cook was sentenced to serve a 25-year term in the Missouri...

This magazine clipping is reproduced from the Aug. 9, 1919 edition of Country Gentleman magazine. William A. Rinehart, as of that date,...

The rock dam that stops the flow of Charles Bay from direct entry into the Mississippi River has protected the prime farmland of the bay...