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Wedding · Central Point, Virginia, United States
Richard and Mildred Loving
1958 - 1967
They were arrested in their own bedroom for being married to each other.
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Career · Lead, South Dakota, United States
The Homestake Mine
1876 - 2002
They dug a mile and a half down for gold.
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Home · Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, United States
Elbowoods, North Dakota
1889 - 1954
There is a photograph from 1948 of a man holding his glasses aside so he can wipe his eyes while the Secretary of the Interior signs a piece of paper.
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Career · Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States
Dockery Farms
1895 - 1982
The sign on the seed house says Dockery Farms, Est.
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First Responders · Cherry, Illinois, United States
The Cherry Mine Disaster
1909
Twelve men rode the cage down seven times.
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Person · Dover, Delaware, United States
Annie Jump Cannon
1863 - 1941
She classified more stars than anyone who has ever lived, and the system she built is still the one astronomers use.
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Home · Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States
Dyess Colony
1934 - 1951
Five hundred families were given twenty acres, a mule and a debt.
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Career · Kay County, Oklahoma, United States
The Miller Brothers 101 Ranch
1893 - 1932
The 101 Ranch more or less invented the rodeo by accident, and the best hand on the place had to be billed as an Indian in order to compete.
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Home · Phippsburg, Maine, United States
Malaga Island
1860 - 1912
In 1912 the State of Maine evicted an entire community from an island, committed eight of its people to an institution for the feeble-minded, and dug up its graveyard.
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Pet · Randolph, Vermont, United States
Figure, called Justin Morgan
1789 - 1821
Every Morgan horse alive descends from one stallion, and nobody can prove who his father was.
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Career · Fayette County, West Virginia, United States
The Hawks Nest Tunnel
1930 - 1935
They were told they were digging a tunnel.
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Person · Niobrara, Nebraska, United States
Standing Bear
1829 - 1908
In 1879 a federal court in Omaha was asked to decide whether a Native American was a person.
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Military/Veteran · Bayview, Idaho, United States
Farragut Naval Training Station
1942 - 1946
Nearly 300,000 sailors learned to be sailors on a lake in northern Idaho, three hundred miles from the nearest ocean.
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Home · Portland, Oregon, United States
Vanport, Oregon
1942 - 1948
Oregon's second-largest city lasted five and a half years and is now a golf course.
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Anniversary · Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Pioneer Day and the Days of '47
July 24, 1849
The same community has marked the same day for a hundred and seventy-seven years, and the sentence everyone quotes was written down thirty years after it was supposedly said.
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Wedding · Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
The Little Church of the West
1942
The oldest building on the Las Vegas Strip is a wedding chapel, and it has been picked up and moved three times to get out of the way of everything newer.
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Family · Ganado, Arizona, United States
The Hubbell Family of Ganado
1878 - 1967
One family stood behind the same counter for eighty-nine years, and it is still a working trading post.
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First Responders · Hinckley, Minnesota, United States
The Great Hinckley Fire
September 1, 1894
The loggers took the trunks and left the branches where they fell.
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Pet · New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Stubby
1917 - March 16, 1926
A stray wandered onto the Yale Bowl field in the summer of 1917 while the 102nd Infantry was drilling there, and went to France in a soldier's overcoat.
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Sports · Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Iowa Girls Six-on-Six Basketball
1920 - 1993
In 1925 the men who ran Iowa high school sports decided to drop girls basketball.
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Home · Kalaupapa, Hawaii, United States
Kalaupapa, Molokai
January 6, 1866
Nearly eight thousand people were taken from their families and put on this peninsula.
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Career · Islamorada, Florida, United States
The Overseas Railroad
1905 - September 2, 1935
It took seven years and more than fifty million dollars to build a railroad across the open ocean, and one afternoon to end it.
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First Responders · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The Winecoff Hotel Fire
December 7, 1946
The hotel stationery said absolutely fireproof.
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Family · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
The Delany Family of Raleigh
1858
A man born into slavery in 1858 raised ten children on a college campus, and two of his daughters lived long enough to tell the whole story themselves.
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Person · New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Homer Plessy
March 17, 1863 - March 1, 1925
His name is on one of the worst decisions the Supreme Court ever handed down, and no photograph of him is known to exist.
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Military/Veteran · San Juan, Puerto Rico
The 65th Infantry Regiment
March 2, 1899 - 1956
They were decorated, and then they were court-martialled, and the Army admitted almost fifty years later that the two things were connected.
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Group · Nashville, Tennessee, United States
The Fisk Jubilee Singers
October 6, 1871
Nine students went on the road in 1871 to keep their school from closing.
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Group · Fort Wingate, New Mexico, United States
The Navajo Code Talkers
May 4, 1942 - 1945
The government had spent forty years punishing Navajo children for speaking Navajo.
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Motors · Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States
The Thomas B. Jeffery Company
December 6, 1900 - 1916
A bicycle man bought a dead bicycle factory in Kenosha, and cars were built on that ground for the next eighty-six years.
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Career · Las Animas County, Colorado, United States
The Ludlow Tent Colony
1913 - April 20, 1914
They were living in tents because they had gone on strike, and the houses belonged to the company.
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Home · Graham County, Kansas, United States
Nicodemus, Kansas
1877
The federal troops left the South in 1877.
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First Responders · Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Ida Lewis
February 25, 1842 - October 24, 1911
She did the lighthouse keeper's job for twenty-two years before anyone gave her the title.
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Anniversary · Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States
The Great Reunion of 1913
June 29, 1913 - July 4, 1913
Fifty years after the battle, both armies came back and camped on the same field.
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Wedding · Elkton, Maryland, United States
The Honeymoon Express to Elkton
1913 - 1938
For twenty-five years, a town of three thousand people married the whole Northeast.
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Family · Walla Walla, Washington, United States
The Sager Children
1844
Seven children crossed the plains in 1844.
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Home · Galveston, Texas, United States
The Raising of Galveston
September 8, 1900 - 1911
Around eight thousand people died at Galveston in a single night.
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Home · Mono County, California, United States
Bodie, California
1876 - 1942
Sixty-five saloons along a mile of main street, and now nobody at all.
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Military/Veteran · Memphis, Tennessee, United States
The Sultana
1863 - April 27, 1865
More people died on the Sultana than on the Titanic.
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Person · Cascade, Montana, United States
Mary Fields
1832 - December 5, 1914
She was about sixty years old when she took the job, and she never missed a day.
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Motors · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
The Marmon Motor Car Company
1902 - 1933
The first Indianapolis 500 was won by a company engineer driving a car with a mirror bolted to it.
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Motors · Springfield, Massachusetts, United States
The Duryea Motor Wagon Company
1895 - 1917
The first American company to build gasoline automobiles broke up over a proposal to move to Detroit.
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Group · Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States
The Homestead Grays
1912 - May 1951
Between 1937 and 1948 the Homestead Grays finished first in ten seasons out of twelve.
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Career · Kennecott, Alaska, United States
Kennecott, Alaska
1909 - November 10, 1938
The last train left Kennecott on the tenth of November 1938, and everyone still there got on it.
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Career · St. Joseph, Missouri, United States
The Pony Express
April 3, 1860 - October 26, 1861
The Pony Express ran for eighteen months, lost money on every letter it carried, and is remembered better than almost anything else in the American West.
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First Responders · United States
The United States Life-Saving Service
August 14, 1848 - January 28, 1915
The regulations told them to launch.
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Pet · Albany, New York, United States
Owney, the Railway Mail Dog
1888 - June 11, 1897
A stray terrier fell asleep on a pile of mailbags in the Albany post office around 1888, and spent the next nine years riding the trains.
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Motors · Cleveland, Ohio, United States
The Winton Motor Carriage Company
March 15, 1897 - February 11, 1924
In 1903 a doctor bought a used car on a fifty-dollar bet and drove it from San Francisco to New York, because nobody had done it yet.
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Motors · Buffalo, New York, United States
The Thomas Flyer
1900 - 1919
In February 1908 six cars left Times Square to drive around the world.
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