Cattle horn etched with map of New York. General History During the colonial period, cattle horns were used by woodsmen and by soldiers for storing gunpowder in a safe, dry place. The horns also ...

A Berkshire Eagle reader presented a mystery: What did his ancestor carve on a powder horn in 1776? Before we consider what Benjamin Markham, of Tyringham, carved, we might clear up two other ...

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BELCHERTOWN — In the summer of 1971, Michael Corbett, a visitor to the Stone House Museum, arriving with his girlfriend, signed the guestbook and toured the historic building at a time when it still ...

A 243-year-old piece of history was recently returned to the family of its original owner, Lieutenant John Jenkins. The Revolutionary War officer’s six-times-great-grandson, Richard Jenkins of ...

OSHKOSH - Eighteen years after officials with the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians requested an artifact important to the tribe's cultural identity be returned, the John W. Quinney powder ...

As this column is published, the Northeast is waiting for the moon to pass between the earth and sun – plunging us into darkness during the day. In olden times, early mankind would worry that the ...