In the 201-year history of Springfield, the city has been home to a future U.S. president, the founder of the Post cereal company, the president of Sears, three U.S. senators, three state governors ...

Illuminating local history and celebrating unsung heroes, the Springfield-Greene County African-American Heritage Trail is preparing to grow. Eight markers on trail are in place already. In 2018, the ...

The entire exhibit is something of a happy accident, says Maddi McGraw, curator at the Springfield History Museum. Motorcycles in Springfield, 1900 to 1939, which opened July 14 at the museum, started ...

A Black activist of Springfield’s past has greeted people coming downtown since last fall, and it serves as just one example of ongoing efforts to tell the stories and remember Black leaders of the ...

What does "home" mean to you? To strike up conversations about housing types, what "home" feels like, who has access to housing and what the history of housing in Springfield has looked like since ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield has been around since the early 1800s, and many significant events have occurred over the last 200 years. 1831 Joseph Rountree and family and Sidney S. Ingram, his ...

For years, black wrap has protected the edges of Springfield’s Campanile, where long cracks mar Indiana limestone. Its bells hang silent and the hands of its four-sided clock sit frozen in time. The ...

The Land of Lincoln is rich in history and offers a plethora of things to do. Springfield, Illinois, is where former president Abraham Lincoln called home from 1844–1861, some of his final years ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Springfield has been around since the early 1800s, and many significant events have occurred over the last 200 years. 1870 The Mansfield Opera House at 313-315 South Street was ...