All five arrested staff members of an Olavar-based private English medium school, including four teachers and a peon, were on Sunday remanded to judicial custody in connection with the alleged gang ...

History has a way of silently hiding in the corners of a room before being uncovered. At the Merchant’s House Museum in Manhattan, it was hiding behind a bottom drawer. Surprisingly, a fully intact ...

A narrow passageway, about 2 feet square and secreted beneath a built-in chest of drawers on the second floor, descends 15 feet to the ground floor. Two years of extensive research points to a ...

When Danielle Wukitsch and her family moved into their house in Campton Township in Kane County about eight years ago, they got to work making some repairs. One room in particular — the kitchen — ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the first time in more than 100 years, a fully-intact underground railroad site has been discovered in Manhattan. (via CBS) ...

While the NYC Merchant House is famous for its grandiose nature, the truth lying underneath the ground floor is a more humbling representation of Black American history. For years, a 19th-century ...

“It’s a critical piece of the overall struggle for freedom and justice,” said one city councilmember A "safe house" tied to the Underground Railroad was recently discovered in a New York City museum ...

The Underground Railroad was a large movement in North America consisting of several individuals who worked together to aid enslaved men and women in their escape from their captors. The freedom ...

Hidden inside a historic 19th century house on East Fourth Street in Manhattan is a secret sanctuary. Ever since the Merchant’s House Museum opened its doors to the public in 1936, visitors have lined ...

The safe house went by undetected until almost a century later. A hidden safe house once used by the Underground Railroad has been discovered within a famed NYC landmark museum. Inside the Merchant’s ...

A historic museum in Manhattan, New York has been discovered to have a safe house that protected formerly enslaved people on the Underground Railroad. According to local outlet NY1, Merchant’s House ...