The Coronado Tent City launched in 1900 with 300 fancy red-and-white-striped seaside tents. It started as an affordable summertime alternative to the famed Hotel del Coronado off the coast of San Diego, California. Local mogul John D. Spreckels initially thought it would be a bad investment. He was wrong.
Inventions and Discoveries of the Industrial Revolution defined today’s world.
Strange nineteenth-century customs, holidays and events echo in today’s world.
Victorian Age fashion pushed forward into greater freedom.
Advances in the Industrial Era spawned secret places, many of which you can still visit.
Nellie Bly and other Victorian Era visionaries blazed trails to your future.
Explore pets, plants and other 19th century natural wonders and people who protected them.
Rival journalists Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland raced around the world in 1889. Facing treacherous…
