At about 10:30 Thursday evening, just as Fred J. Murphy, secretary of the company was driving into town on a return trip from Denver, he discovered a blaze near the sawmill. He hurried to give the ...

The 1920 census revealed that fewer than a quarter of Washington’s residents were actually born in Washington. A total of 311,970 of Washington’s 1,356,316 residents were born in the state. Most of ...

Note: This data was obtained through a query of the digitized federal census for 1920. By 1920, of all the major immigrant groups in Lowell, the Portuguese, comprising the sixth largest foreign-born ...

At about 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 10, 1921, James Foster, night watchman at the Commerce Department building in Washington D.C., was making his rounds on the upper floors of the 11-story building when ...

Censuses date back to the mid-18th century when the majority of western countries started keeping detailed records of their populations to assist with planning for the future. The first U.S. census ...

In March 1920, Harry Taylor, longtime editor of the Portsmouth Times, was furious at Chillicothe City Council. The newspaper man’s rage, on the surface at least, had been triggered by a ...

Oneonta had a census boom. With a growing city came time to show it off a little. That is, if people could keep track of what time it really was. These were all a part of our local life and times ...