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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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Motors · Syracuse, New York, United States
The Franklin Automobile Company
1902 - April 1934
For thirty-two years, a factory on Syracuse's west side built cars with no radiator.
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Military/Veteran · Pine Camp, New York, United States
The Ghost Army
1944 - 1945
The Army recruited them out of art schools and advertising agencies, gave them inflatable tanks and a set of gramophone records, and sent them to impersonate whole divisions of...
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Family · Donora, Pennsylvania, United States
The Donora Smog of 1948
October 27, 1948
For five days at the end of October 1948, the air in a mill town in the Monongahela Valley killed twenty people, and the football game went ahead anyway because nobody understoo...
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Person · Columbus, Georgia, United States
Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins
1849 - 1908
He was born blind and enslaved in Harris County, Georgia, and by the time he was eight years old other people were making money out of him.
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Military/Veteran · Quartzsite, Arizona, United States
The United States Camel Corps
1855 - 1866
In 1855 the United States Congress appropriated thirty thousand dollars to buy camels, and for about ten years the United States Army had a camel corps in Texas.
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Career · Lowell, Massachusetts, United States
The Lowell Mill Girls
1823
They were farm girls, most of them between fifteen and thirty-five, and they went to Lowell because it was the only place in America where a woman could earn her own money.
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Person · Denver, Colorado, United States
Clara Brown
1800 - 1885
She was sold away from her husband and three of her children at auction, and she spent the next forty-seven years looking for one of them.
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Home · Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States
Centralia, Pennsylvania
1841
There is a town in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania with five people living in it, a revoked postal code, and a coal seam burning underneath it that has been alight since...
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First Responders · Scullyville, Oklahoma, United States
The Choctaw Gift to Ireland
1847
In 1847 a group of Choctaw people in Indian Territory took up a collection for the starving poor of Ireland, a country none of them had seen, four thousand miles away.
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Family · Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States
The Whiskey Rebellion
1791 - 1794
The first tax the United States ever laid on a domestic product was a tax on whiskey, and within three years it had seven thousand armed men gathered on a field outside Pittsbur...
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Person · Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Madam C. J. Walker
1867 - 1919
She was born on a plantation in Delta, Louisiana on 23 December 1867, to Owen and Minerva Breedlove, who had both been enslaved on that ground.
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Person · Sallisaw, Oklahoma, United States
Sequoyah
1770 - 1843
He could not read.
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Career · Florence, Kansas, United States
The Harvey Girls
1883
Something like a hundred thousand young women worked as Harvey Girls.
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Group · Lockport, New York, United States
The Erie Canal
1817 - 1825
It is three hundred and sixty-three miles long, it was dug by hand, and the men who surveyed it were a judge, a mathematics teacher and a twenty-seven year old who had never bui...
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Family · Tuskegee, Alabama, United States
The Tuskegee Study
1932 - 1972
Almost everything most people believe about this study is wrong in one specific way, and the correction belongs at the top rather than buried at the bottom.
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Person · Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Isaac Burns Murphy
1861 - 1896
Isaac Burns Murphy won forty-four percent of the races he rode.
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First Responders · Nome, Alaska, United States
The 1925 Serum Run to Nome
January 27, 1925
In January 1925 the only doctor in Nome, Alaska sent a telegram out of a town that was frozen in for the winter.
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Home · Collinsville, Illinois, United States
Cahokia
1050 - 1350
We do not know what the people who built this city called it.
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Career · Chautauqua, New York, United States
Chautauqua
1874
For about thirty years a brown tent went up on a well drained field outside town, and for a week the whole county came to hear a former presidential candidate, an opera singer,...
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Career · Muskogee, Oklahoma, United States
Bass Reeves
1838 - 1910
Every account of Bass Reeves reaches the same number: more than three thousand arrests.
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Family · Elaine, Arkansas, United States
The Elaine Massacre
1919
On the night of 30 September 1919 about a hundred Black farmers met in a church at Hoop Spur, three miles north of Elaine, Arkansas, to talk about how to get paid for their cotton.
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Military/Veteran · Washington, District of Columbia, United States
The Bonus Army
1932
In the summer of 1932 men who had been shot at in France built a town out of scrap lumber and packing crates on the mud flats across the Anacostia River from the Capitol dome, a...
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Person · Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Garrett Augustus Morgan
March 4, 1877 - July 27, 1963
He had six years of school.
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Career · Chicago, Illinois, United States
The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
1925 - 1978
Passengers called every porter George.
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Career · Hindman, Kentucky, United States
The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky
1935 - 1943
They were paid twenty-eight dollars a month, and they had to bring their own horse.
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Family · Ord, Nebraska, United States
The Children's Blizzard of 1888
January 12, 1888
The morning was warm enough that some of them went to school without their coats.
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First Responders · Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States
The Johnstown Flood
May 31, 1889
The club lowered the top of the dam by a couple of feet so that two carriages could pass each other on the road across it.
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Career · New York, New York, United States
The Negro Motorist Green Book
1936 - 1966
The man who published the guide wrote that he was waiting for the day it would not have to exist.
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Family · Pawhuska, Oklahoma, United States
The Osage Reign of Terror
1918 - 1931
In 1923 the Osage took in more than thirty million dollars from the oil under their own land, and most of them could not spend a dollar of it without asking a white guardian for...
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Home · Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States
The Cherokee National Female Seminary
1851 - 1909
The Cherokee Nation built it, paid for it, and staffed it, in Indian Territory, twenty years before Oklahoma existed.
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Career · United States
The Mercury 13
1960 - 1962
Thirteen women passed the same medical screening as the Mercury astronauts.
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Sports · Danville, Virginia, United States
Wendell Scott
August 29, 1921 - December 23, 1990
He won the race, and the man who finished second was flagged the winner, and it took fifty-eight years for the trophy to reach his family.
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Career · Promontory Summit, Utah, United States
The Chinese Workers of the Central Pacific
1864 - 1869
The Central Pacific kept no record of the deaths of any of its workers.
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Family · Chilmark, Massachusetts, United States
The Deaf Community of Martha's Vineyard
1694 - 1952
On this island, for something like two hundred and fifty years, deaf people were not a category.
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Person · Walthill, Nebraska, United States
Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte
June 17, 1865 - September 18, 1915
She came home from medical school to be the only doctor for more than twelve hundred people spread across hundreds of square miles, and she was twenty-four.
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First Responders · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
The Great Molasses Flood
January 15, 1919
The company said anarchists had blown up the tank.
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