Lancaster is my home. I was born at the old St. Joseph’s Hospital. And the founder of my state, William Penn, arrived in ...

A major milestone for the Brick Chapel – a landmark of faith that symbolizes Maryland’s status as a birthplace of religious ...

Or Phillis Wheatley, who as a child survived capture in Africa and passage on a slave ship to arrive in Boston ... the largest Colony and the birthplace of key patriot leaders and four of the ...

While charming central streets are common in small towns all over the U.S., this one is especially charming. It's packed with ...

The settlement was established in 1612, a mere five years after the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia and ... One of many ships that sank offshore was a Portuguese vessel; a casualty ...

Many Friends in Pennsylvania and New Jersey had grown rich ... beneath a captain with extreme powers of discipline, to move ships and their cargoes around the world. The experience—which ...

Chesapeake Bay, Baltimore, Harriet Taubman, Babe Ruth, blue crabs and Edgar Allen Poe are some of what Maryland is known for.

Following the American Revolution, ships from New England sailed to India for British ... a scholar at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania, who was interviewed by indianexpress.com. These missionary ...

But from the 1730s and onward, the Iroquois granted tracts of that region to the growing Pennsylvania colony. The Delaware and Shawnee were thereby continuously evicted as the colony expanded.

Two 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Costa Rica, previously thought to have been pirate ships, have been confirmed to be two Danish slave ships, a museum said Sunday. "Investigations of ...