Before Columbus was a city, some of the area’s earliest migrants came to the Refugee Tract. This land was aside in 1801 by Congress to provide land compensation for residents of Nova Scotia who had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Immigrant children at Ellis Island in New York, 1908. National Archives/Wikimedia Commons One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress ...

Part of a series for the Des Moines Register's 175th anniversary that examines Iowa's past and future demographics. In 1837, Joel C. Garretson built a cabin in the woods in what is now Henry County.

In the 1850s, there were already people named Honicker in the town of Saint Clair, Pa. I imagine I’m descended from them because Saint Clair is my father’s hometown. Honicker is an unusual family name ...

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