A memorial service for the five people killed in the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck of 1893 will be held next week. The service marking the 130th anniversary of the derailment will be held at 10 ...

In honor of spooky season, the Ledger-Enquirer is exploring some of Columbus’ most unsettling true-life stories and some of them are scarier than fiction. These stories are (mostly) true and are as ...

The Venice Area Historical Society was recently honored by the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation with a Florida Preservation Award for the Circus Train Car Museum and for its "significant ...

Clowns Thom “Skootchee” Stevenson (left) of Milton, Del., and Jim “Poppo” Shores of Baltimore, Md., uncover the wreath during the dedication of the Walter L. Main Circus Train Wreck monument and park ...

BARABOO — A miniature model will help Circus World Museum visitors appreciate the grand scale of the old Ringling Bros. circus train. Model train builder and circus fan Joe Kaspar has donated to ...

When circuses starting making their way to Dayton in the 1800s, they quickly became a major spectacle. We went back into the archives to see what the circuses were like throughout history and the ...