History

The remarkable story of how a Palmyra, Missouri man and his father went west in 1850 in search of gold.

Only one place in Missouri could be the state's most historic food joint and there's not even a close second.

How does one commemorate the anniversary of one of the largest earthquakes in United States history? If you're the earthquake fault in southern Missouri, you celebrate by causing a tremor exactly 213 years to the day which is what just happened.

What was life like 100 years ago in Missouri? You can peek into that distant past thanks to a time capsule that was recently unearthed from a Missouri memorial cornerstone.

The Missouri farm that was originally the home of pioneer Daniel Boone is now available.

If you're a baseball fan, you owe it to yourself to visit this place in Missouri at some point in your life.

One Illinois cemetery contains some of the most notorious Chicago gangsters all in one place.

Now, it's gone forever, but explorers were granted one final walkthrough of the Chesterfield, Missouri Mall before it closed.

This has been and always will be a tricky state question. What is the smallest town in Illinois? It depends on who you ask, but there is an official answer and in Illinois, it's a tie between two tiny places that both have just 36 souls calling it home.

If you know your wild west history, you probably already know that the real John Henry 'Doc' Holliday spent some time in St. Louis, Missouri. What you might not know is how much the time in the state affected him and how he likely found love and the beginnings of his legend in the Show Me State.