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Before Hollywood was the center of the film industry, Fort Lee, New Jersey, was America's first film town. In the 1910s, a high number of film studios gathered in the borough across the Hudson from Manhattan.
A set of black and white images showing African Americans in Lincoln, Nebraska, during the New Negro Movement have been colorized, breathing life into already powerful images from 1910-1925.
Marianne Barnes, 31, became Kentucky's first female master distiller in 2015 when she decided to join Castle and Key, a new bourbon brand which was renovating a historic distillery in Millville.
New York City's women's roller derby league, the Gotham Girls, started their new season on Saturday, 15 years after the league was launched in 2003. Today it is the third best league in the world.
The murderabilia market is where people collect items related to serial killers, including locks of hair, letters and art. There are only a handful of websites devoted to the industry, but it has been growing.
Gabriela Hernandez, 52, founded Besame Cosmetics in 2004. The company, with their store in Burbank, California, creates vintage make-up based closely on colors and textures from the past.
In 1867, 18 African American Civil War veterans returned to Talbot County, Maryland, after the war, and founded their own village of Unionville. Last May locals celebrated the 150th anniversary.
Margaret DePaula, 72, grew up living just inside the gates of Union Field Cemetery in Queens, New York, because her father was the caretaker. She says she only had one 'paranormal' experience.
Cullen Murphy, the son of illustrator John Cullen Murphy, has released a memoir about growing up in Fairfield County, Connecticut, where most comic strip creators lived from the 1950s to the '90s.
MoonPies, a traditional Southern snack known as the original s'more cookie, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year as it is still being made by the family-run Chattanooga Bakery in Tennessee.
Lauren Rossi works a corporate job in the mass market apparel industry in New York City, but in her spare time she makes elegant gowns inspired by 18th century fashion and sews everything by hand.
Hunt A Killer, a monthly subscription box service based out of Essex, Maryland, sends subscribers ciphers and clues so they can solve a fictional, interactive murder mystery.
Hundreds of people lined up for days for the release of Stranahan's rare Snowflake Whiskey in Denver, Colorado, on December 2. A new batch of the whiskey is released once every year.
The holiday season is rapidly approaching and with it come the lavish store window displays in New York City. DailyMail.com has rounded up some of this year's most interesting.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which was founded in 1874 and lobbied for prohibition still exists, including a branch that meets in Millville, NJ. The union is struggling to survive to 150 years.
The US Navy has come up with a color-coded system that categorizes the roles of personnel on the deck of aircraft carriers into seven different colors: purple, yellow, blue, brown, green, red and white.
Fernando Parrado, now 67, was only 22 when he was in a plane crash that left 16 survivors in the Andes Mountains for 72 days. Forty-five years on, Mr Parrado retells his incredible story of survival.
Kathrine Switzer, 70, was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon with a registered number in 1967. On Sunday, she will run the five-borough route of the New York City Marathon for the first time.
In 2008, mother-of-two Bea Johnson, from California, launched the zero-waste movement as it is known today, where people try to reduce the amount of non-recyclable trash they generate.
Cemeteries have become prime tourist spots in the last 20 years, such as Green-Wood Cemetery (pictured), because of the interest in celebrity graves such as Doors lead singer Jim Morrison's (inset).
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES. Fought between 1861 and 1865, the US Civil War claimed 620,000 lives - nearly as many American casualties as every other war fought by the US combined.
The new legislation, which comes into force in the Hawaii capital and surrounding county on Wednesday, will allow police to fine pedestrians for checking their phone while crossing the street.
Mirna Valerio, 42, from Rabun Gap, Georgia, is an ultramarathon runner who weighs about 240 to 250 pounds. She started running in 2008 after she had a health scare and hasn't stopped since.
David Wisnia, 91, survived the Holocaust because of his talent for singing. Almost 75 years after he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau Mr Wisnia tells DailyMail.com his story of hope and survival.
Carry A Nation (1846-1911) destroyed illegal bars and saloons in Kansas during prohibition. She became known as the face of the movement and advocated against alcohol across the country.
Sarah Reinecke, Sophia DeVita and Molly Schuyler are just three members of a tiny group of female competitive eaters. Though Sarah and Sophia are signed with MLE, Molly is independent.
David Joyner, 54, wore the Barney the dinosaur costume for the children's television show for ten years from 1991 to 2001. Though it was hard work inside the 70-pound suit, David loved the role.
Nigerian energy businessman Kola Aluko's (pictured right) apartment at One57 in Manhattan is up for sale for $11million less than he bought it for in 2014.
Scotty Bowers, 94, claims he was a 'pimp' for many of Hollywood's elite during the 1940s. He first told his stories of sexual intrigue in his 2012 memoir. His stories are being retold in a new documentary film.
Townsends, a family-owned Colonial goods store in Pierceton, Indiana, has a popular YouTube channel where owner Jonathan Townsend demonstrates 18th century recipes.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner said the flooded city has turned a corner after electricity was restored to much of the area and shelter numbers were beginning to decline as of Thursday night.
Flood waters have receded enough in the Texan city for the recovery mission to begin, six days after the hurricane first made landfall and after a record 51 inches of rain.
Residents of Tyler County, Texas, are being warned to 'GET OUT OR DIE' as waters rise in the Neches River and the Steinhagen Reservoir from tropical depression Harvey that continues to drop rain.
Two explosions have rocked a flooded Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, just outside Houston, early Thursday morning just hours after the company warned a gas explosion was imminent.
At the Bob Bowers Civic Center in Port Arthur, evacuees were forced to wait in the bleachers as water washed over the floor and sent their cot beds and chairs floating.
Hurricane Harvey has dumped the most rain on the continental US in history as catastrophic scenes unfold in Houston with shelters overwhelmed with thousands of survivors.
A Houston mother and victim of Hurricane Harvey shouted at CNN correspondent Rosa Flores on live television after she had just arrived at a shelter in Houston, Texas, with her two kids.
The two victims killed in a New Mexico mass shooting on Monday have been identified as librarians Krissie Carter and Wanda Walters.
The residents of a Texas nursing home who were seen up to their waists in murky water in a viral photo on Sunday are now safe and sound in a new home after being airlifted out on Sunday.
After wreaking havoc in Texas where thousands are now homeless, the tropical storm is set to continue off for another two days before it peaks on Thursday.
The first military plane transporting evacuees from Galveston County, Texas, arrived in Dallas Monday afternoon, as rescue efforts continued in Houston to help those devastated by Harvey.
Houston mom Dajauh Zhane Henix and her daughter Paige were separated while trying to evacuate Monday. A picture of Paige with the officer who rescued her helped reunite them.
Two people have been shot dead and four more injured in a shooting at the Clovis-Carver library (pictured) in Clovis, New Mexico, on Monday afternoon, Curry County Sheriff's Office confirmed.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation Monday raising the minimum price for a pack of cigarettes to $13 in New York City, making the city the most expensive place to buy cigarettes in the country.
Members of the 'Cajun Navy', a volunteer group from Louisiana, have set out with their private boats to help the rescue efforts in flooded areas of Texas as thousands of residents are asking for help.
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner defended his decision Sunday not to order Houston's evacuation ahead of Hurricane Harvey, saying an order would have created a 'nightmare'.
High school science teacher Nikki Varney, 44, from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, was charged by state police for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a male student in July.
Fifteen residents of a nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, had to be evacuated by helicopter on Sunday because the facility was flooded with waist-deep water.
A good Samaritan helped save a suicidal young woman by following her across beams 20 feet above a train platform in a Manhattan subway station and comforting her on Saturday afternoon.
A 61-year-old man died after he jumped from the Manhattan Bridge in Dumbo, a popular Brooklyn neighborhood. He jumped at 7.04pm on Saturday and was soon pronounced dead.