Travis and Maria Summers had been smelling the faint and sickly sweet odor of gas around their antebellum home in Lexington, Missouri ... the heart of this Civil War-era community’s historic ...

The Battle of Lexington Green and Retreat from Concord ... “I know we have folks here from Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and of course Ohio ...

Union generals lost a week long siege of Lexington, Missouri, shown here ... Illinois University Libraries Five months into the Civil War—on September 9—Richmond, Virginia’s Daily Dispatch ...

Questions linger tonight as to how and why a deadly explosion occurred in Lexington, Missouri, where a 5-year ... Xi Jinping Breaks Silence on US Tariff War Movies Over 4 Hours That Are Worth ...

In the aftermath of a deadly gas explosion, it is the laughing cackle that particularly rankles Lexington, Missouri’s Jacob ... that once belonged to World War II Maj. Gen.

LEXINGTON, Mo. (KCTV) - The process of restoring natural ... The city takes pride in its significance as a Civil War battle site. Hughes reflected on that history as he stood in the thick of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Several in Greene County celebrated the 250th anniversary of the American Revolutionary War. Patriots’ Day commemorates the Battles of Lexington and Concord, which ...

In the early morning hours of August 10, 1861, the rolling hillsides of southwest Missouri echoed with the sounds of fierce combat...The Battle of Wilson's Creek, the second major battle of the ...

After defeating the French in North America in the early 1760s, in part during the Seven Years' War, Britain ... Longfellow’s poem of 1861, Paul Revere’s Ride, the messenger is best known for the part ...

Longfellow picked Revere over William Dawes, Samuel Prescott or a dozen or so other riders who carried out similar warning missions that night, on the eve of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

This year is the semiquincentennial– the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord– the first armed ... When the Civil War broke out in 1861, she tried to join the army as a surgeon ...

What is Massachusetts famous for? It's one of the original states in New England that achieved independence from the English.