That little can of Underwood Deviled Ham on your grocer’s shelves represents a company that once fed the Union Army, built the...
The Ashton Valve company was born out of Henry G. Ashton’s desire to make boiler rooms a safer working environment. In its...
In 1903 and 1904 the face of American public amusement changed with the successful opening of two new parks in Coney Island:...
One day in the middle of the 1870s, a young glassmaker named Louis Comfort Tiffany visited John La Farge in his studio....
In 1923, the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini refused to pay a Gloucester seafood company for a shipment of salt cod. Mussolini’s action...
Today’s makers of electric cars should tip their hats to Thomas Davenport of Forest Dale in Central Vermont. He made the first...