By Shelby Sorensen, Zachary Vaccarezza, and Tyler Tocci November 2025 Update: Since the publishing of this blog, Folsom's community has answered our call. A new edition of this blog will be posted soon. Synopsis: Folsom History Staff and Volunteers have recently been working to uncover the history of Ashland Station. What we've found suggests that it's highly likely no train station ever existed in Ashland. Neither local newspapers nor railroad survey maps from the 1860s men

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Native American tribal communities have been fighting for decades to be able to bring home objects and people that have been taken from...

What is Public History? Many in the field would describe it as the practical and real-world applications of historical knowledge. Where...