Category: History

The Pascagoula region, explored by D’Iberville in 1699, is steeped in history, from mysterious shell mounds and eerie music to the establishment of a fort…

John W. Staggs, a farmer and father of 16 from Lawrence County, struck gold—literally—when he discovered a small fortune buried on his property.  While plowing…

As a digital news producer, I often find myself writing news reports about local car accidents, but what about the buggy in the past? Were…

An amusing news report published in 1912 tells us that a group of husbands had to ask the police to stop their wives from gambling…

In today’s news, we read that babies are being abandoned in the state of Texas at an alarming rate. The same thing happened 100 years…

John V. Weidemeier was arrested in St. Louis, 1925, and accused of marrying at least 48 women in a fraudulent scheme exposed during an annulment…

A tragic accident occurred in Agosta one afternoon in 1907 when the 15-month-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dall drowned in a washtub. Despite…

In a tragic incident in Columbus, Thomas Lee, while intoxicated, ignored the suffering of his ten-month-old daughter, Geneva Bell Lee, who died of cholera infantum…

In a bold daylight escape, two prisoners broke out of the county jail one Sunday afternoon, locking a guard in a cell and climbing out…

Harry Woodley purchased an old bookcase filled with books at a local estate sale for less than two dollars, only to find a collection of…