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PORTAGE, MI –– Portage hosted a vintage base ball festival on Saturday, June 28, at Ramona Park, featuring 23 clubs playing the game as it was in the 1860s.

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - Baseball may be America's pastime but the sport has extra special historical ties to the Tri-State. The Cincinnati Vintage Baseball Club celebrates old school 1860s baseball ...

They say beauty is pain, but for some Victorian women, beauty was death. During the mid-19th century, many fashionable women ...

A pocket watch discovered in a deadly Lake Michigan shipwreck has returned home to the United Kingdom after 165 years.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – As we celebrate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal, it’s important to recognize its crucial role in the Underground Railroad from its inception in 1825 until the early 1860s ...