Nellie Bly is one of the most remarkable women in history. She was a thrill-seeker, inventor, charity worker, explorer, and an undercover journalist. In a time when women couldn’t vote ...

The girl who would later take on the pen name Nellie Bly and help launch a new kind of investigative journalism was born Elizabeth Jane Cochran on May 5, 1864 in Cochran's Mills, Pennsylvania.

After her divorce, Nellie Bly's mother Mary Jane took her daughter to Allegheny City, an unincorporated part of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where two of her sons were living. By that time the city ...