4 stories tagged local-history, newest first.
1672 points by sohkamyung | 253 comments
Local Wikipedia is a web app that shows geocoded Wikipedia articles about places within roughly a half-hour walk of a chosen location.
98 points by rmason | 18 comments
An East Lansing Info article recounting a little-remembered historical conflict, the "forgotten battle" of East Lansing, Michigan.
910 points by graypegg | 230 comments
Tyler Vigen investigates why a pedestrian bridge crosses I-494 west of the Minneapolis airport, connecting Bloomington and Richfield.
325 points by thunderbong | 132 comments
SFGATE Obscure SF article about a historic mansion, the Nimitz house, located directly beneath the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge on Yerba Buena Island.