PITTSBURGH — Bouquet’s Blockhouse, a shelter for 18th-century soldiers being sniped at or overrun by warring tribes, survived Pontiac’s War and two revolutions -- the American and Industrial. It ...
WINSLOW — The country’s oldest blockhouse is getting a needed update. Construction began Thursday on a new roof for Fort Halifax, a town treasure and National Historic Landmark. The project is ...
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The sleepy Free State town of Springfontein once bustled madly during the South African War. Railway lines from Cape Town, Gqeberha (then Port Elizabeth) and East London all met here on their way to ...
Throughout history, New York City has played an important strategic role in many historic wars. The remnants of those conflicts can be found all over the five boroughs in the form of forts, cannons, ...
LORRAINE MCCONAGHY, historian at Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI), spent the summer of 2005 in “the other Washington” hoping to find treasures in the Navy’s archives. The object of this ...
MUSKEGON, Mich. (WZZM) -- Spray paint and flames from an arsonist -- those are the two biggest problems at a historic site in Muskegon County. It sits on the county's highest elevation, just around a ...
A planned visitor attraction showcasing Hull's Tudor history has been put "at risk" because of a funding shortfall, an MP has said. Construction work on the South Blockhouse was expected to begin in ...
MIFFLIN – South Park's historic Blockhouse may soon become part of a small village. The same group of volunteers that completed the Blockhouse restoration in 2010 in South Park in Mansfield is ...
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Why has Fort Blockhouse been left dormant for years? "Substantial" stumbling block for Gosport site laid bare
“Significant repairs” that need to be made on the site of a dormant fort are expected to be extremely costly. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is continuing to try and sell Fort Blockhouse in Gosport, ...
Nearly five months after opening the Spokane area’s first residential building made with cross-laminated timber, developers behind the Blockhouse Life project are looking to expand the concept to ...
A dig at a 16th Century blockhouse commissioned by Henry VIII for the city of Hull's defences has uncovered the original floor levels from the 1540s. Ken Steedman, of Humber Field Archaeology (HFA), ...
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