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Early telephones were leased in pairs and communication was only possible between the two instruments of the same pair (think of two tin cans connected with string). The first telephone …

From the Washington County Post newspaper archives Back Row(l-to-r): Dr. Joe Pender, George Wilkie, Tom Dunn, Tom Dwyer, Walt Gann, Jerome Wright, Bob McWhorter, Front Row(l-to-r): ? , Bob Holbrook, …

[ as told by Ed Cantwell, CCS 1958 ] Back around my Junior Year (1956-57) we formed a small combo called The Cats. The group included Neal Laverty, drums; Kerry …

We all remember Albert Rich’s (and then Dorothy Rich Madison’s) motorized popcorn wagon. That started in 1925. But only our grandparents or great-grandparents remember Albert’s first popcorn wagon pulled by …

Here are advertisements for Jackson businesses that appeared in the first catalog for the fair. In 1883 Volentine started the Lauderdale Fair on his farm at the southern end of …

In the 1970’s Bob Raymond, Carleton Foster and Kerry McKernon put together a narrated slide show of the history of the Great Cambridge Fair. Ken Gottry converted the show to …

Mayor Charles Ackley and the Rev Jack Wells made an agreement that, if the NY Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, they would push Ray Luke across Main Street in a …

As we approach the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, I thought I’d talk about the beginning of the Cambridge District (today the towns of Jackson, White Creek, and …

Content Farm was owned by the Law family (not sure if they built it), I think as far back as “Strong Oak” Law (I think I got nickname right) Around …

(reprinted from Washington County Post article 23-Jan-1975 by J. Geoffrey Jones) The old Stillwell mansion, construction of which was begun during the American Revolution and completed in 1792, is a …