In the early winter of 1834, citizens of the village Hannibal, New York were stirring about the prospect of moving west. James Bacon, who ...

This handsome portrait of Levi H. Mead, from the collections of the Bess Bower Dunn Museum, prompted me to research his life in Newport Tow...

"He was an ideal soldier, quiet, manly, religious, and exerted an excellent influence in the Company."  This description of Edwar...

This is the second post on the five men pictured together in a Civil War era tintype in the museum's collection. Like most Lake County...

Research of an unidentified soldier pictured in a tintype in the museum's collection has revealed the forgotten story of a young Scottis...