Collins in the British Isles is attested as early as the 1000’s in Hodnet, Shropshire as Collung of Steel. Shropshire …
Category: Colonial History
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The House of Ghostly Music
The home might’ve been a famous haunted house at one time, but it’s prominence has been forgotten. The historic structure burned down some time ago.
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The Female Stranger
This mysterious grave in St. Paul’s Cemetery has stirred more questions, more suspicion, and more romantic notions than perhaps any other location in Alexandria, Virginia.
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Lord Brewer’s Dragon Bed
The ruins of a magnificent stone house once stood high atop a bluff in the North Carolina pine forests, alongside the Cape Fear River. The decaying castle had two ghosts, that of an older English gentleman, the other was a beautiful young lady.
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The Ordeal of Blood
This historic practice goes by many names: Bier’s Test, Bier-Right, Trial by Touch, Ordeal of Blood, Blood-test, Covenanting by Blood, and many others that have been lost to time.
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Melungeon Exploitation
The Melungeons emerged into common knowledge as a group of isolationists in Northeastern Tennessee. Their primary home was in Hancock County, in a place called Newman’s Ridge.
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The Starving Time in Jamestown
Smith was not the only one to suffer after he left Virginia. Jamestown became a veritable ghost town.
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The Carter Family’s Ordeal of Blood
The body of a baby boy was found in Accomack County, in March of 1679. It was buried in a blue blanket.
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The Powers Family of Southwest Virginia
The Powers Family of Southwest Virginia The Powers Family POWER or POWERS PIONEER IRISH in NEW ENGLAND from: Pioneer Irish in New England, p.