These small towns have so much history packed in, ... Small American Towns That Changed the Course of Our History. ... his schoolhouse, his church, and even the cheese factory his father once owned.

MOUNT VERNON, Ill. (RNS) — Ryan Burge, pastor and sociologist, has documented church decline for years. This Sunday, after 150 years, his own church held its final service.

Doubleday Field and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum may be the stars of Cooperstown's lineup, but the ...