Situated about two miles south of the Miami River, along the shore of the bay, is one of perhaps Miami’s most interesting historic sites–...

Founded in 1886 as a community project, the Little Red Schoolhouse was the first schoolhouse in southeast Florida. Its first seven...

In 1846 train tracks were laid down into 10th, 11th and 12th avenues and used to transport cargo easier into the industrial areas of New...

BUNCHA MULLIGANS.....Play Golf Free While Having Your Suit Pressed is hanging on an old brick building while businessmen are standing...

The Hell Gate Brewery was established by George Ehret in the year 1866 and was located between 92nd and 93rd street, between 2nd and 3rd...

Located down in Wall Street at 79 Broadway, The Astor Cenotaph, in Trinity Cemetery in New York, was commissioned by her youngest...

From colonial times up until World War 2, May 1st was Moving Day, the one day a year when people in New York City moved. It’s said that...

Ragamuffin Day began shortly after Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as an official holiday in 1863. The tradition, beginning in...

In 1891, five years before Miami became a city, Flora McFarlane and the women of Coconut Grove formed the Housekeeper’s Club, now called...

80th & Columbus Avenue in 1890......with The Museum of Natural History in the background.

In 1897, Henry Flagler was building his famous landmark in Miami, notably the Royal Palm Hotel, on the mouth of the Miami River in...

My all-time favorite historic New York story has got to be the first ever subway built by Alfred Ely Beach. This is the story of Alfred...

These two life-like sculptures are done by artist J. Seward Johnson Jr. The artist dresses his statues of everyday people in real clothes...