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    LOCAL HISTORY

    Below, are titles of stories about the Watters District area.  We invite you to take several trips back in time with some of our local writers and historians!

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    • Dee the Wake Up Man

    • Transfer Deed (PDF)

    • History of The Ridge/Berry Waterwheel

    • A Short History of the WDC (206 Kb PDF)

    • Lt. Gen., Chaplin Billy Brown

    • In Honorable Tribute

    • Southern Brighton's Water Supply

    • Shannon Community Schools Prepare for 1947 Fall Term

    • Photograph Revives Ancient School Bus

    • Garden Plots Available To Brighton Employees

    • Modern Streamlined Methods Speed Erection of New Houses

    • 2014 Memorial Day Service Program

      • Front (2.2 Mb PDF)

      • Inside Pages (5.9 Mb PDF)

      • Colonel Tom Torrance, Ret. Insert (2.8 Mb PDF)

      • Back (3 Mb PDF)

    • 97 Per Cent of Brighton Employees Buying War Bonds

    • Dr. Dawson Begins Practice In Shannon

    • Modern Medical Clinic Established in Shannon

    • Brighton's Medical Clinic

    • Early History of Brighton Mills

    • 2013 Memorial Day Service Program

      • Front (477 Kb DOC)

      • Inside Pages (8.5 Mb DOC)

      • General Douglas L Carver, Ret. Insert (368 Kb DOC)

      • Back (13 Kb DOC)

    • The History of Model School

    • The Brighton Family (15 Kb DOC)

    • History of the Berry Old Mill by Rebecca Watters West

    • There Used to be a Ball Park Here, by Wayne Minshew

    • Memories of a Village Kid, by Margaret Kelly Flowers
       

    "Without the Heritage of the Past, There's Little Foundation for the Future" —JD
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