At Texas’ dusty Concordia Cemetery, grass grows over graves in a 140-year-old Chinese burial ground. Some headstones have been stolen or vandalised; others have been marked by flat concrete slabs etched with names in Chinese and English. The slabs were…
The Tampa Bay Times e-Newspaper is a digital replica of the printed paper seven days a week that is available to read on desktop, mobile, and our app for subscribers only. To enjoy the e-Newspaper... In October 1867, famed naturalist and…
From the 1950s through the early 1990s, people driving along Highway 395 south of Temecula, or later, the 10 Freeway in Calimesa, were treated to various biblical scenes as they whizzed by. The locations were known as Bibleland, and they were the product of…
For the first time since 2023, several endangered homes in the North Carolina Outer Banks town of Rodanthe will be purchased by the government for more than $1 million and demolished. The three homes, including one, a popular home called "The Black…
As long as we've envisioned bridges crossing the San Francisco Bay, there have been people wanting to name them after Emperor Joshua Norton. The 1800s Barbary Coast legend, who may have been insane and continues to be beloved, in 1872 ordered a…
Image credit: Danvers State Hospital, Danvers, Massachusetts, Kirkbride Complex, circa 1893. Architect Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee (1829-1888) of Boston. / Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons Every haunted place has a ghost story. The ghost story usually has a name, a date, and a sad ending.
Some places only have a chance of a white Christmas. Quebec City during winter. Right: Unionville, Ontario during a snowfall. Canada's weather forecast revealed which places will have a white Christmas this year. Even though this country is known for…
The City of Irvine received its name from the Irvine family, who established the company that designed the city known today. California was originally part of Mexico, and after the country gained its independence from Spain in 1821, land was given…
The name Plaza de Cesar Chavez in San Jose is no more. The new name received the most support (4,116 votes) and the highest score (3.96) in a ranked-choice survey published last August. The other finalists were Farmworkers Plaza (2.99), Plaza del Pueblo…
A $50,000 bequest for a Golden Gate Park entrance became a children’s playground after William Hammond Hall argued for public benefit. | World News A $50,000 bequest in 1885 could have funded a monumental marble gateway at the entrance to San Franciscoâs Golden…
The town's story and the places that keep it.