Many folks have heard the distant rumble of trains as they pass through the north end of Mitchell County and on into McDowell. It’s now called CSX but from the early 1900s until 1983, it was known as ...

Nearly 170 years ago, Springfield had its own railroad station and the site of a Civil War skirmish, putting Springfield on the map for local historians. The station was not much more than a little ...

On May 10, 1869, as the last spike was driven in the Utah desert, the blows were heard across the country. Telegraph wires wrapped around spike and sledgehammer transmitted the impact instantaneously ...

The Underground Railroad, a vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escape to the North and to Canada, was not run by any single organization or person. Rather, it consisted of many ...

Necessity is the mother of invention. Many say it gave birth to greatness in Carbon County in 1827. The necessity was a demand to haul coal from Summit Hill mines to then Mauch Chunk, now Jim Thorpe, ...

Once upon a time great giants once roamed throughout our valley, giants made of iron and steel that ate black diamonds and belched fire and smoke with every step. It was the Era of the Steam Engine.

On Friday, city of Marion officials, property donors Frank and Debra Boldon and city workers all helped cut the ribbon for the new Clinchfield Community Park. Mayor Steve Little held the ribbon, while ...

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