The Sultana, loaded down with excess passengers. Courtesy | Facebook The Sultana Historical Preservation Society is campaigning to open a museum in Marion, Arkansas and dedicate a commemorative coin to the 1865 Sultana shipwreck. It was the deadliest maritime disaster in United States history and killed nearly 1,200 people, including 67 Civil War soldiers from...
The Hillsdale County Historical Society will publicly open the doors of the Will Carleton Poorhouse barn on Dec. 4, featuring its vintage fire truck from 1932. “We purchased a 1932 Seagrave fire truck that was originally purchased by the city of Hillsdale back in 1932, and we needed someplace to store it,” board member and...
Hillsdale College’s Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Natural History in Strosacker Science Center has added hundreds of specimens collected this summer by Professor of Biology and curator of the museum Anthony Swinehart. The specimens will enhance the public displays as well as aid in research and classroom teaching. In order to acquire these specimens, Swinehart...
Hillsdale College became one of four places in Michigan to display a full dinosaur skeleton Friday with the addition of an edmontosaurus to the Daniel M. Fisk Museum of Natural History in the Strosacker Science Center. The nearly complete remains, nicknamed “Linda” for the woman who found the fossil, is a donation from dinosaur-enthusiast Darla...