The Painesville Railroad Museum, 475 Railroad St., slipped back into the middle of the 1930’s on July 27, during its annual ‘Hobo Day’ in remembrance of the thousands of displaced migrants who once ...

Hobo camps or "jungles," as they were often called, grew up in the local area in the 1920s and continued into the Great Depression. A hobo can be defined as someone who illegally rides the trains ...

Years ago, there was a “hobo camp” near Willard’s in east O’Fallon, the area around what is now the Seven Hills Road Bridge. Here is an O’Fallon Progress story from 1928 telling of an incident that ...

There are two types of "hobo gatherings." There's the organized type and there's the type that just happen. Both take place in what's called a hobo jungle. A hobo jungle is the place where hobos ...

Although Westfield’s Dennis Picard retired as the director of Storrowton Village five years ago, he has not stopped living history, through reenactments, lectures and craft demonstrations. Picard will ...