Nonprofit that owns Beyond the Battle museum, acquires Gettysburg landmark
The Adams County Historical Society is no longer the owner of just one museum in the Gettysburg area. It will now own and ...
From the Statesman archives: Railroad, freedom colonies changed Austin after Civil War
The International-Great Northern Railroad, which arrived in Austin on Dec. 28, 1876, was formed in 1873 by merging previously ...
A US Congressman, his enslaved half-brothers and the history of an Austin log farmstead
Judge John Hancock kept his half-brothers in bondage until Juneteenth in 1865. He educated his own half-Black son who became ...
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Pickett's Charge - Gettysburg's Bloody Turning Point
Pickett's Charge was a suicidal Confederate attack during the Civil War's infamous Battle of Gettysburg, that arguably was the turning point that led to the Union's victory.