Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. By organizing the fragmented transportation system in the United States, Cornelius Vanderbilt facilitated continental ...

The Commodore built the largest private fortune in American history and handed it to his heirs without a single legal restriction, trusting that his instructions would be enough. They were not, and ...

Back in 1896 when auburn-haired Grace Graham Wilson bagged young Cornelius Vanderbilt, most of New York’s 400 agreed that it was a most unsuitable marriage. As a great-grandson of the tough old ...

There are affordable homes and plenty of things to do in the picturesque Dutchess County town. What’s missing: a town center and wastewater management. A fixture in Saratoga and Lexington, she was a ...