St. Mary’s County Government’s Museum Division will host a two-day event on April 26-27, 2025, to honor the 87 lives lost in ...

During the bloody years when the Civil War tore apart the United States ... the Virginia home of George Washington on the banks of the Potomac River, was a refuge for Union and Confederate ...

Library of Congress Harpers Ferry, Virginia, lay sleeping on the night of October 16, 1859, as 19 heavily armed men stole down mist-shrouded bluffs along the Potomac River where it joins the ...

He had been ready in 1858 to launch his war -- he had both the men and the ... He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited ...

This $615 million project is key to cleaning up the Potomac River ... Some of them date back to the Civil War. Pushed to clean them up, communities have been building vast tunnels like this ...

The Department of Historic Resources this week approved a new historical marker highlighting the role of the Old Carolina ...