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Hometown History

Discover forgotten stories from small-town America that never made it into history books. Hometown History is the podcast uncovering hidden American history—overlooked events, local mysteries, and untold tragedies from communities across the nation. Every week, meticulous research brings pre-2000 small-town stories to life in 20-minute episodes. From forgotten disasters to local legends, hidden chapters to pivotal moments, each episode explores a different town's overlooked history. Perfect for

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Erie, Pennsylvania: The Wall of Water That Killed 36

Hometown History ·

2025/11/25

On August 3, 1915, a wall of water tore through downtown Erie, Pennsylvania, at twenty-five miles per hour, destroying three hundred buildings and killing thirty-six to forty people in the city's deadliest disaster. The Mill Creek Flood wasn't an act of God—it was the predictable result of a choice made by a growing American city that buried a powerful creek beneath culverts and ignored repeated warnings.For decades, Erie built over Mill Creek to maximize developable land, covering the

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Athens, Tennessee: The 1946 GI Rebellion and the...

Hometown History ·

2025/11/18

On the night of August 1, 1946, hundreds of World War II veterans laid siege to the McMinn County jail in Athens, Tennessee. Armed with rifles, Thompson submachine guns, and dynamite, they surrounded the brick building where corrupt county officials had locked themselves inside with stolen ballot boxes. What followed was six hours of sustained gunfire, three dynamite explosions that flipped police cruisers and collapsed the jail's front porch, and ultimately the surrender of Sheriff Pat

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22:24

Osage County, Oklahoma: The Oil Murders That Created...

Hometown History ·

2025/11/11

The Wealthiest People Per Capita in the World Were Being Murdered for Their Money.In the early 1920s, members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma drove Pierce-Arrow automobiles, built terra-cotta mansions, and employed white chauffeurs. Oil discovered beneath their reservation made them spectacularly wealthy—each tribal member received quarterly royalty payments that reached $3,350 by 1925 (equivalent to over $60,000 today). National newspapers called them "the richest people in the world per

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22:20

Kalaupapa, Hawai'i: The Saint of Exiles and Hansen's...

Hometown History ·

2025/11/04

Between 1866 and 1969, the Kingdom and later State of Hawai'i sent over eight thousand people diagnosed with Hansen's disease—then known as leprosy—to permanent exile on the Kalaupapa peninsula on the island of Moloka'i. This breathtaking but isolated landscape, surrounded by the tallest sea cliffs on Earth, became both a prison and, unexpectedly, a community. The vast majority of those exiled were Native Hawaiian, torn from their families by a policy known as ma'i

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29:50

Africatown, Alabama: The Last Slave Ship and the Town...

Hometown History ·

2025/10/28

In July 1860, under cover of darkness, 110 West Africans were smuggled into Mobile Bay aboard the Clotilda—the last known slave ship to reach American shores. Arriving fifty years after Congress banned the transatlantic slave trade and made it punishable by death, these captives were quickly hidden and distributed to local plantations before the ship was burned and sunk to destroy the evidence. But this story doesn't end with enslavement. After emancipation in 1865, a group of thirty-two

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10:31

171: The Last New England Vampire

Hometown History ·

2025/09/26

In 1892, a quiet town in Rhode Island made headlines across the world when villagers exhumed a young woman’s body, convinced she was rising from the grave to prey on the living. Her name was Mercy Lena Brown—and she became the final chapter in America’s vampire panic. In this episode, we unearth the tragic story of the Brown family, explore how fear turned into ritual, and trace the folklore that inspired Dracula himself. It’s a chilling tale of grief, superstition, and the line between myth and

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170: Radium Girls of Ottawa: Shining Women, Deadly Glow

Hometown History ·

2025/09/05

In 1920s Ottawa, Illinois, hundreds of young “shining women” painted watch dials with radium-laced paint they were told was harmless. Their luminous craft soon became a lethal sentence—and their fight for justice helped forge modern workplace-safety law. Join host Shane Waters as Hometown History uncovers how the Radium Girls’ courage still lights the path toward corporate accountability.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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Episode 169: When Lightning Struck the Big Top

Hometown History ·

2025/08/05

Step beneath the canvas and into a summer storm as host Shane Waters unearths the electrifying true story of June 10, 1897, when a bolt of lightning shattered the Ringling Brothers’ Big Top in Wahpeton, North Dakota. Hear how a day that promised exotic animals, brass‑band parades, and wonder turned to chaos in a heartbeat—claiming two lives, shaking a frontier town, and forging a bond between locals and traveling showfolk that still echoes through the granite “tent‑pole” monument overlooking the

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168: The Miracle of Hickory: A Hospital in 54 Hours

Hometown History ·

2025/07/07

In the summer of 1944, as a devastating polio outbreak swept across North Carolina, hospitals were overwhelmed and children were dying. But in Hickory, a small city already stretched thin by World War II, something extraordinary happened. In just 54 hours, volunteers built a full-scale emergency hospital from scratch—offering cutting-edge treatment, compassionate care, and hope to hundreds of young patients. In this episode, we tell the true story of the “Miracle of Hickory,” where carpenters,

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167: How America’s Main Streets Are Fighting Back—The...

Hometown History ·

2025/06/24

Nearly every American town has the same heart-in-crisis story: a once-bustling Main Street hollowed out by big-box stores, sprawl, and online shopping. In this episode, Shane zooms out to look at the nationwide Main Street movement—then zooms in on Wabash, Indiana as a living lab that shows what’s possible anywhere. You’ll hear the origin of the National Main Street Center’s “Four-Point Approach,” meet the people who tested it on the ground, and pick up practical lessons you can apply whether you’re

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166: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 3 – The Rise of...

Hometown History ·

2025/06/17

World War trenches, inflatable splints, and airborne operating rooms—this finale races from post-Nightingale training schools to the helicopter pads of today. Host Shane Waters uncovers how pioneers like Mary Seacole, Clara Barton, and Lillian Wald turned wartime chaos into blueprints for public-health nursing; how state licensure and the GI Bill vaulted nursing into universities; and why WWII flight nurses boasted a survival rate above 96 percent Nursing Through The Age…. Along the way, you’ll hear

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165: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 2 – Florence...

Hometown History ·

2025/06/12

When war-torn wards near the Bosphorus Strait reeked of sewage and despair, Florence Nightingale arrived with 38 nurses, a ledger, and one stubborn oil-lamp. In today’s Hometown History, Shane Waters traces how Nightingale’s evidence-based reforms—and the parallel heroics of Jamaican-Scottish healer Mary Seacole—drove mortality at Scutari Barracks from 42 percent to just 2 percent, igniting the global movement for professional nursing. You’ll hear midnight whispers among wounded soldiers, discover

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164: Nursing Through the Ages, Part 1: The Dark...

Hometown History ·

2025/05/30

Long before starched whites and stethoscopes, nursing grew out of medieval convents, overcrowded workhouses, and disease-ridden wards where desperate women labored with little training and even less respect. In this debut episode, we trace caregiving’s shift from a humble act of charity to a grim last-resort job for society’s most marginalized—setting the stage for an unlikely revolution in health care. You’ll meet the anonymous nuns who braved plague, the urban nurses who faced four-times-higher

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