Hometown History
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Hometown History
Discover the untold stories hidden in your own backyard with Hometown History. We bring to life the forgotten events and local legends that never made it into the textbooks. Each episode uncovers the mysteries and pivotal moments that shaped small towns across the nation. Join us as we delve deep in...
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Jackson, Kentucky: The Lawyer Who Carried His Baby as a Bulletproof Shield
In the spring of 1903, attorney James Buchanan Marcum faced a terrible daily calculation in Jackson, Kentucky. For seventy-two days, the most prominen...
The Gainesville Tornado: 203 Dead in 3 Minutes
On April 6, 1936, two tornadoes merged over Gainesville, Georgia, and in just three minutes, killed 203 people, the deadliest tornado in a single buil...
Jacksonville, Florida: The 1888 Yellow Fever Epidemic That Built Public Health
In the sweltering summer of 1888, a Tampa saloon keeper named R.D. McCormick stepped off a train in Jacksonville, Florida, carrying something far dead...
Bessemer City, North Carolina: The Ballad Singer the Mill Bosses Couldn't Silence
Bessemer City, North Carolina. September 14th, 1929. A flatbed truck kicks up Red Carolina dust on a back road outside Bessemer City. The boards rattl...
Forsyth County, Georgia: The Town Georgia Tried to Bury Twice
September, 1912, Forsyth County, Georgia, 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, farming country, red clay roads, pine forests thick enough to block out the a...
Carrollton, Mississippi: The 1886 Courthouse Massacre That History Forgot
January 1886, Carrollton, Mississippi, a Saturday afternoon. Two brothers are hauling jugs of molasses from a wagon into a saloon. Heavy earthenware v...
Dover, Delaware: The Poisoned Chocolates That Changed American Law
August 1898, Dover, Delaware. The heat of the day has broken, and the air smells of cut grass and warm earth. On the porch of the Pennington family ho...
Brattleboro, Vermont: The Asylum Tower Holding a Century of Secrets
In the woods above Brattleboro, Vermont, a 65-foot stone tower has stood since the 1890s. It was not built by architects or hired masons. It was built...
Waterbury, Vermont: The Asylum That Turned a Towns Name Into a Warning
You're standing on Route 100 in Waterbury, Vermont, in November 1891. The air smells like wood smoke and coming snow. Behind you, the last maples hold...
Riceville, Maine: The Ghost Town Whose Plague Never Happened
Riceville, Maine. Somewhere in the forest of eastern Maine, there's a town that no longer exists. It's a summer morning, sometime in the early 1900s....
Prudence Island: The Keeper Who Relit the Light After Losing Everything
In a lighthouse keeper's cottage on Prudence Island, Rhode Island, six people huddle on the floor. It's September 21st, 1938. Outside, a wall of gray-...
Watch Hill, Rhode Island: The Fort Road Massacre That Killed 15
Watch Hill, Rhode Island. It's one o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon in September 1938. Miss John McKisson Camp is hosting a luncheon on the rocks at W...
Deal Beach, New Jersey: 240 Immigrants Drowned 150 Yards From Shore
Deal Beach, New Jersey. It's 6.10 on the morning of November 13th, 1854, and the gale-force winds that rattled windows all night have driven the few f...
Hazardville, Connecticut: When Gunpowder Made—and Destroyed—a Town
January 14, 1913. Hazardville, Connecticut. A winter morning at the old powder mills, now operating under the Hercules Powder name for exactly 30 days...
Ord, Nebraska: The Teenage Teacher Who Saved 13 Children in the 1888 Blizzard
Ord, Nebraska. January 12th, 1888. Morning. A one-room schoolhouse six miles south of Ord, Nebraska. 40 degrees in January. Unseasonably warm. The mor...
Lewistown, Montana: When the Guide Became the Killer (1889)
Lewistown, Montana, 1889. Mid-June, 1889. The Judith River runs cold through central Montana Territory. The water flows down from the Little Belt Moun...
Globe, Arizona: The Curse of Room 18—Two Miners, One Deadly Room
Globe, Arizona. Saturday night, November 16th, 1907. Approaching midnight in Globe, Arizona's red-light district, two Globe police officers found him...
Taos, New Mexico: The Headless Body in the Fortress Mansion
Taos, New Mexico. On the morning of July 3rd, 1929, U.S. Deputy Marshal Jim Martinez stood outside Arthur Rothford Manphy's fortress-like mansion in t...
East Montpelier, Vermont: The 14-Hour Marriage That Ended in Murder
East Montpelier, Vermont. September 5th, 1889, 11 o'clock in the morning. Laura Cutler Gold walked up the path to her family's farm in East Montpelier...
Turtle Lake, North Dakota: The Wolf Family Murders of 1920
Turtle Lake, North Dakota. April 24th, 1920, a farmhouse three miles north of Turtle Lake, North Dakota. In a small bedroom, an eight-month-old baby g...
Boise City, Oklahoma: The Night America Bombed Its Own Town
It's just past midnight on July 5th, 1943, in Boise City, Oklahoma, and Forrest Bork is sound asleep above his post office on the courthouse square wh...
Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
Opelousas, Louisiana. Columbia, Mississippi, April 1913. Julia Anderson walked into the sheriff's office, holding a photograph of her son Bruce. She'd...
Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed—A 92-Year DNA Mystery
186: Opelousas, Louisiana: The Boy Two Mothers Claimed, A 92-Year DNA Mystery
Hometown History explores forgotten stories from small-town Americ...
Edgefield, South Carolina: The Devil's Bargain Murder Trial of 1850
March 1849. Workers searching the woods between Edgefield and Abbeville County, South Carolina, stumbled across a shallow grave. Inside, the decomposi...
Hagerstown, Indiana: The Blind Engineer Who Invented Cruise Control
Hagerstown, Indiana. September 1908, Philadelphia train station. 18-year-old Ralph Teeter stands on the platform, one suitcase in hand. It contains a...
Gay Head, Massachusetts: 103 Souls Lost Half a Mile from Shore
Gay Head, Massachusetts. At 3.45 in the morning, on January 18, 1884, the lookout aboard the passenger steamer City of Columbus screams a warning into...
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia: America's Deadliest Industrial Cover-Up
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia. It's 1931. Dewey Flack is 17 years old when he steps off the train in Gawley Bridge, West Virginia. He came from North C...
Wheeling, West Virginia: When Steel Workers Became Radio Stars
Wheeling, West Virginia. It's a Sunday afternoon in late 1939. 3,000 people pack into Wheeling's Capitol Theater, West Virginia's largest venue betwee...
Erie, Pennsylvania: The Wall of Water That Killed 36
August 3rd, 1915, downtown Erie, Pennsylvania, 8.45 at night. For the past five hours, an artificial lake has been growing in the middle of the city....
Athens, Tennessee: The 1946 GI Rebellion and the Limits of Armed Reform
Athens, Tennessee. It's around 2.30 in the morning on August 2, 1946. The McMinn County Jail in Athens, Tennessee is surrounded. Armed veterans, some...
Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created the FBI
Osage County, Oklahoma. It's around 3 in the morning on March 10, 1923. In Fairfax, Oklahoma, Rita Smith sleeps in her bedroom. Her husband, Bill, is...
Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's Disease Colony
Kalaupapa, Hawai'i. Imagine a place of breathtaking beauty that is also a prison. Picture what are among the tallest sea cliffs on earth, a sheer wall...
Africatown: The Last Slave Ship Survivors Who Built a Town
In July 1860, under cover of darkness, 110 West Africans were smuggled into Mobile Bay aboard the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to reach America...
171: The Last New England Vampire
Exeter, Rhode Island. It's just before dawn, March 17th, 1892. In the graveyard beside Chestnut Hill Baptist Church, five men gather around a crypt, s...
170: Radium Girls of Ottawa: Shining Women, Deadly Glow
Ottawa, Illinois. A young woman, barely out of her teens, dips a fine-tipped brush into a bowl of glowing paint. It's 1922, inside the old Ottawa High...
169: When Lightning Struck the Big Top
Wahpeton, North Dakota. The Twelve-year-old Edward Williams grips a rope with all his might, feet slipping in the muck. A grizzled circus worker rushe...
168: The Miracle of Hickory: A Hospital in 54 Hours
Hickory, North Carolina. It's just before sunrise, on Saturday, June 24th, 1944. In the woods by Lake Hickory, North Carolina, floodlights cast long s...
167: How America’s Main Streets Are Fighting Back—The Wabash Playbook
Wabash, Indiana. It's the night of March 31st, 1880. A sleepy town in Indiana explodes into the future with the flick of a switch, becoming the first...
166: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 3 – The Rise of Modern Nursing
Washington, DC. It's 4 a.m. on the Western Front. A freight car converted into a makeshift ward jolts to a halt. Inside, nurses in ankle-length khaki...
165: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 2 – Florence Nightingale and the War on Death
London, England. It's 2.30 in the morning, November 1854, in a makeshift army hospital perched above the Bosphorus Strait. Rats scurry between cots st...