In the shadow of Dollywood and the neon-lit attractions of Pigeon Forge sits a treasure hunter’s paradise that locals have been quietly frequenting for years. The Antique Mall might not have roller ...

Join us as we walk Kentucky’s historic grounds, metal detectors in hand, searching for lost remnants of the Civil War. From buttons to bullets, each discovery connects us to the soldiers who ...

The road to our 50 states is littered with wannabe territories that couldn't wait to be admitted to the union, but never quite got there. Here are 12 states that could have been.

On Jan. 25, 1865, a company of Black Union soldiers was ambushed by Confederate guerrillas in Simpsonville, Kentucky. Kentucky was technically neutral during the Civil War, but it was also home to ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, a division of the Tennessee Historical Commission, is responsible for administering grants through the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund. The fund was established in ...

American Civil War naval battle with 'Merrimac' and 'Monitor' An American Civil War naval battle involving the ironclads ‘Merrimac' (aka ‘CSS Virginia’) and ‘USS Monitor' in Hampton Roads, at the ...

PARKERSBURG — The next regular meeting of the Civil War Round Table of the Mid-Ohio Valley will be 7 p.m. March 20 at the Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History, 137 Juliana St., Parkersburg.

SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Saturday will mark 160 years since more than 20 Black Civil War soldiers fighting for the Union were massacred in Simpsonville, Kentucky. A snow-covered stretch of ...

Miller found an old highway survey map drawn in 1936 for what is now known as the well-traveled Highway 60. “There was a spot, and it said, ‘Civil War burial mound,” noted Miller.

And that was an important part during the Civil War because, up there where the Tennessee was, it went straight to Chattanooga. Going to Chattanooga, they could supply their army all the way down.

The 19-second video, posted online in July 2023, is all the footage there is of what has become known as the Great Kentucky Hoard, a stockpile of Civil War–era gold coins that was unearthed in a ...