So many Cape Cod fishermen perished in the Great October Gale of 1841 that the peninsula’s young women refused to court men...
Just six years after the Great Hurricane of 1938 devastated New England, a storm of similar magnitude headed north from the Caribbean:...
A July 1911 heat wave killed thousands of New Englanders and sent many over the brink of madness. During 11 hellish days,...
The Great Salem Fire of 1914 was one of the last great urban fires of the era. It followed the Portland, Maine,...
When the heat wave of 1896 finally ended on Aug. 13, 1896, it left behind a record of suffering and death “long...
The tendency of steamboats to blow up and catch fire became such a concern by 1838 that the U.S. Congress created the...