says the home's listing in the federal government's 1938 Historic American Buildings Survey. In the decades after the first ships arrived from Sweden in 1638, the settlers gave the name New ...

The 483-room Georgian-style Omni Homestead Resort is a beautifully preserved example of old splendor with new amenities.

Officially incorporated in 1885, but existing since the early days of Emancipation, it is the oldest Black town in America. Princeville has persisted through centuries of annexation and buy-out ...

MOLINE, Ill. — A Quad Cities funeral home has been recognized as one of America's oldest. The Wendt Funeral Home was founded by German cabinetmaker J. Robert Earler in 1866 in Port Byron ...

While many churches are seeing a decline in parishioners, the church on Salisbury Street is seeing an increase in their pews.