Fort Delaware, on Pea Patch Island, was once a prison for Confederate soldiers. Now there are reports of ghostly hauntings.

DELAWARE CITY. Delaware -- Nestled on Pea Patch Island is Fort Delaware, a historic Civil War-era site, offering a unique blend of living history and ghostly intrigue. To get to the fort ...

The state of Delaware is known as the "First" state because on Dec. 7, 1787, it became the very first state to approve the United States Constitution. Delaware lies along the Atlantic coastline and is ...

If there’s any takeaway from our 1890s forebears, it’s that no matter how intense an election feels, life always goes on.

With the Halloween season upon us, I undertook a most spooky assignment: recommending real haunted houses that you can ...

Not only is Hot Springs National Park the oldest tourist attraction in the Razorback State, but it can also make a claim for ...

local authorities organized civil defense efforts to combat an enemy air raid. The Lewes newspaper, the Delaware Pilot, remarked on Dec. 12, “In 1939, when the present World War began ...

After graduating from Exeter Academy, Lewis moved to Delaware with his parents ... Buchanan's refusal on the eve of the Civil War to resupply a United States fort located in the South.

The Pennsylvania Hunt Cup (Pennsylvania Hunt Cup racecourse, Newark Road, Unionville, 484-888-6619, http://pahuntcup.org) is ...

A valiant black woman called Harriet Tubman was convinced that the war had to be customised to end slavery. She harnessed her ...

The Texas Civil War Museum located on Jim Wright Freeway ... “I think it’s pretty much fulfilled the mission.” The pet project of Fort Worth oilman and part-time history buff Ray Richey ...