A 243-year-old piece of history was recently returned to the family of its original owner, Lieutenant John Jenkins. The Revolutionary War officer’s six-times-great-grandson, Richard Jenkins of ...

A Berkshire Eagle reader presented a mystery: What did his ancestor carve on a powder horn in 1776? Before we consider what Benjamin Markham, of Tyringham, carved, we might clear up two other ...

During the colonial period, cattle horns were used by woodsmen and by soldiers for storing gunpowder in a safe, dry place. The horns also became decorative objects, as they were personalized by the ...

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