Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. GUILFORD, CT — The quarter-acre parcel of land enclosed by stone walls in a deeply wooded area on the west bank of the East River ...

THE GAP — The city’s first Culver’s in Bronzeville is being built on the remnants of a Civil War-era smallpox cemetery, historians said Wednesday. Chicagoans will be able to buy butter burgers and ...

A south-side Culver’s location is being built on the site of a smallpox cemetery where 655 Confederate soldiers were buried, according to historians. The soldiers died of the highly infectious disease ...

The origin of smallpox is unknown. Smallpox-like rashes on ancient Egyptian mummies suggest it dates back at least 3,000 years. European settlers brought smallpox to North America in the 17th century.

MIDDLEBORO — On Soule Street, just inside the town boundary with Plympton, is a small line of gravestones on the side of the road, right next to the Brook Street intersection. The stones are similar ...

PROVINCETOWN - Buried deep in a forested glen in the woods just down a steep hill off a well-worn path lie 14 lonely graves, nine of which have a small weathered stone bearing a number, not a name.

THE GAP — The city’s first Culver’s in Bronzeville is being built on the remnants of a Civil War-era smallpox cemetery, historians said Wednesday. Chicagoans will be able to buy butter burgers and ...