PITTSBURGH — Bouquet’s Blockhouse, a shelter for 18th-century soldiers being sniped at or overrun by warring tribes, survived Pontiac’s War and two revolutions -- the American and Industrial. It ...

The sleepy Free State town of Springfontein once bustled madly during the South African War. Railway lines from Cape Town, Gqeberha (then Port Elizabeth) and East London all met here on their way to ...

MUSKEGON, Mich. (WZZM) -- Spray paint and flames from an arsonist -- those are the two biggest problems at a historic site in Muskegon County. It sits on the county's highest elevation, just around a ...

WINSLOW — The country’s oldest blockhouse is getting a needed update. Construction began Thursday on a new roof for Fort Halifax, a town treasure and National Historic Landmark. The project is ...

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WEST LAFAYETTE — The blockhouse at the Fort Ouiatenon Park turns 90 years old this year — 16 years longer than the real Fort Ouiatenon existed. The French frontier trading post and military outpost ...

LORRAINE MCCONAGHY, historian at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), spent the summer of 2005 in “the other Washington” hoping to find treasures in the Navy’s archives. The object of this ...

Throughout history, New York City has played an important strategic role in many historic wars. The remnants of those conflicts can be found all over the five boroughs in the form of forts, cannons, ...

MIFFLIN – South Park's historic Blockhouse may soon become part of a small village. The same group of volunteers that completed the Blockhouse restoration in 2010 in South Park in Mansfield is ...

A planned visitor attraction showcasing Hull's Tudor history has been put "at risk" because of a funding shortfall, an MP has said. Construction work on the South Blockhouse was expected to begin in ...

The Blockhouse was one of many fortifications built in New York City during the War of 1812 to protect against British attack. Assuming that the British would attack from the harbor, New Yorkers ...