In 1902, the founder of Harlingen, Texas, Lon C. Hill, purchases the tract where the town is now located: 13,837 acres for $1.50 to $2.50 an acre. In 1904, the first passenger train passes through ...

Some communities claim historic sites or giant malls. Others define themselves by their landscape or region. Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has all that: the history, the shopping, the beautiful ...

Location is key for drawing a strong crowd to a sports event, and there’s one location that has a lock on centrality: Alamance County, North Carolina. Located not just in the center of the state, Alam...

It's not polite to brag. If you haven't heard about Central Alabama, that's why. They all grew up with their grandmothers' and mothers' rules: be polite, say thank you, make people feel welcome, and a...

Let's get the clichés out of the way right up front. Top-notch. World-class. Mind-blowing. They all apply, but let's make it simple. Let's just call it the Greater Raleigh Way. It's about doing sports...

"If you build it, they will come," is more than a saying for the new Elizabethtown Sports Park, centrally located in the Derby Region of Kentucky, about an hour from Louisville. Currently under constr...

The Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission, formerly known as the Tuscaloosa Sports Foundation, is technically still a new kid on the sports commission block, but the Commission's performance is not...