All cities of United States of America

The 17th century saw a mass migration of colonists and pilgrims from the west coast of Europe across the Atlantic to the North American continent. Alo …

Chatanuga Cherokees The song that made the city famous may have been "Chattanooga Choo Choo," but its first residents were not train conductors, b …

The poet, Carl Sandburg, called Chicago the ‘City of Big Shoulders’. The city needs them, because it hoists a world - a world of ethnic and religi …

Cleveland sits on the southern banks of Lake Erie at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River – a city of green parks, lively neighbourhoods and historic bui …

The history of Colorado Springs does not begin with its discovery, its first inhabitants, or even its founding, as is the case with so many other Amer …

Dallas is a young city with all the vigour of youth. Effigies of modern architecture rise like glass trees out of the downtown area. In 1841, it was s …

Dramatically situated 1.6km (one mile) above sea level on the Colorado Plains, with the Rocky Mountains soaring to 4,200m (14,000ft) in the background …

Visitors to Detroit are often led to expect a sprawling industrial centre blighted by urban decay and crime yet surrounded by lavish suburbs. This is …

Surrounded by vast Ponderosa pine forests and perched high on the Colorado Plateau at the base of the majestic San Francisco Peaks, Flagstaff offers a …

Florida's Gold Coast, of which Fort Lauderdale is such an integral part, is proof that contemporary alchemy exists. Seven decades ago, what …

The Seminole Indian Wars during the 1840s and 1850s brought about the construction of several union forts along the Caloosahatchee River to serve as a …

Welcome to Fort Worth, known for many years in Texas as "Where the West Begins." Established in 1849 as an army post to protect East Texas settlements …

Like a giant slash in the earth cut by nature's knife, the Grand Canyon exposes millions of years of the planet's history, normally buried under gigan …

While the oldest Hawaiian island (Kaua’i) was formed some 5.1 million years ago, the Big Island is the newest addition, and is still growing. There …

Prehistoric Hawai'i Hawai'i began 60 million years ago as what geologists call a hot spot: a bulge of hot, molten rock about 250 miles wide runnin …

Fondly known as the Bayou City, although nowadays more frequently referred to as the Space City, Houston was founded in 1836 (by brothers Augustus and …

Early Days and the Legacy of the Choctaw When Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto first explored the rolling woodlands east of the Mississippi River …

Nowhere else in Florida or in the nation will you be closer to the nation's roots than in this region of Florida which likes to call itself Florida Fi …

The history of Kansas City is much like an old Western movie. It is a story of cowboys and Indians, of westward expansion and the rugged men and women …

In Ancient Times… The island of Kaua’i formed from gradual volcanic overflow approximately 5.1 million years ago. The oldest of the Hawai …