My city is San Francisco, which has an excellent website called FoundSF which has anecdotes, history, and other things about San Francisco which is all very interesting. It’s community run. Does your city have anything like this?
Nah mate, my town has existed for over 100 years but there’s not very many people here. We don’t get too much tourism except people going to the Olympic Peninsula way west of my town. I mean my town is small enough that locals already know all the landmarks in the town. There‘s an official landmark that’s an old hotel, they’re not allowed to destroy it.
My tiny town has a historic society with a facebook page. They coordinate some walking tours of the town. Last Halloween they did a ghost tour. They also published a book available in local bookstores.
We have a whole mess of local historical Facebook groups for the area.
People identifying old mill foundations by the river, the history of the local mill buildings, old family cemeteries that are now buried in the woods or by the side of the road, more recent land changes, etc.
From 1939 to 1941 the city took a picture of every building in the city for tax purposes. They did this again in the 1980s. You can look up your NYC building on this site.
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Not really. We have one with surf cams and rocket launch schedules. Cause that’s really all anyone cares about my county.
Nah. I live in a random suburb that’s only ~50 years old and which really doesn’t differentiate itself from the neighboring ones anyway.
St. Louis has quite a few.
Not really. But we do have a city history museum that I like.
Does a LocalWiki site count? I’m from the Ann Arbor MI area, that site has a lot of cool stuff on it.
Nope
Nah mate, my town has existed for over 100 years but there’s not very many people here. We don’t get too much tourism except people going to the Olympic Peninsula way west of my town. I mean my town is small enough that locals already know all the landmarks in the town. There‘s an official landmark that’s an old hotel, they’re not allowed to destroy it.
My suburban city doesn’t. Chicago’s does.
My tiny town has a historic society with a facebook page. They coordinate some walking tours of the town. Last Halloween they did a ghost tour. They also published a book available in local bookstores.
bhamwiki has over 18k pages. It’s pretty detailed, going down to things like the previous tenant history of random shopping centers.
Edit: When pairing up with the encyclopedia of Alabama, you can get dig fairly deep. Though, I do go to Alabama Pioneers a decent amount, too.
Yeah my nearby town is 400 years old now.
We have a whole mess of local historical Facebook groups for the area.
People identifying old mill foundations by the river, the history of the local mill buildings, old family cemeteries that are now buried in the woods or by the side of the road, more recent land changes, etc.
From 1939 to 1941 the city took a picture of every building in the city for tax purposes. They did this again in the 1980s. You can look up your NYC building on this site.