Do you know Johnny Walker? No, not the guy at the liquor store. John Dearborn Walker was born in 1851 in Pennsylvania. His parents moved to Racine soon after, he and his siblings were raised here.

Fred Dent Grant, son of President Ulysses S. Grant, left George Armstrong Custer’s 7th Cavalry just before Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians nearly annihilated the regiment at the Battle of the ...

A Cannon Falls Boy Scout will receive a high honor this month. 16-year-old Liam Dewanz’s Eagle Scout project helped restore the city’s Civil War monument. For the last year, Dewanz helped clean up the ...

(WHTM) — Tonight’s Hometown Hero is providing new guidance to learn the history of York. Members of the 87th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry gathered at Prospect Hill Cemetery this weekend to unveil ...

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