How much do you know about the history of your town/suburb/city? What would it have been like 100 years ago? 200? More?

10 minutes from my house is a trail that if you take it for a couple of miles you will find remnants of a mountain chalet resort that in 1890 was opened along with the Alpine Tavern at Crystal Springs. To get to this destination guests rode the Echo Mountain incline railway. You can find the foundations of the buildings along with parts of the railway. It was quite the resort for its time.

Another interesting fact was that grand hotels and grand houses where built here with acres of land for each estate. A man named Huntington bought one of those grand estates. When he died he bequeathed this treasure to the city. The city took over and made the estate and its gardens into a museum. He was also quite a collector whose library is world renowned. Whenever I go there I am amazed at the gardens, the many houses, and his rotating collections. I cannot imagine owning such a huge estate. To say that this place is magnificent is an understatement. The garden has many rare plants. I am happy that we have this place as a memory of what it was like 130 years ago.

The famous architects Greene and Greene settled here and because of that we have quite of few historical Craftsman style homes. Some are grouped in little neighborhoods and so we have blocks of homes registered in the historical society.

My town has so much history, the above are just my favorites.

I've seen pictures of my little town from 80-120 years ago. If the house I live in were here at that time, it would be sitting at the edge of a huge pond, with an apple orchard all around as far as the eye could see. The town itself is only 1.5 sq mi (3.9 km²) and is a small part of a large township. With the exception of two very, very small parks for kids, there is not an empty building lot in the whole town. About 60 years ago, the orchard went dead and the building of homes, a school and about 6 churches started

About 150 years ago, the man my town is named after built a hunting cabin. He liked the area so much he decided to make th area his home and talked others to move here. Other families came but the town didn't develop as fast as others around. There is a park that I take my dogs to has a nature trail. It runs along the egde of his old property and has wild orange trees growing. It is what is left of thee founders grove. (In the late 1880s there were several years with record freezes that destroyed many of the groves in my area,)

I live in a small town on the Mississippi, just north of the Quad Cities.  The most historically significant period was the mid 1800's.  Abraham Lincoln gained fame as a lawyer by winning the right of land routes to bridge waterways, after a steamboat collided with a railroad bridge.

The Rock Island Arsenal was the site of a Confederate prison camp.  The "Andersonville of the North" fame is exaggerated, but lives on mostly due to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind.

I happily live in the 4th largest citiy (State) in the USA. I know history back to the 1800's.

Alamo, Gilley's, Ship Channel, Sam Houston, Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie.

I grew up. In league city i live not far from it. I seen pictures of it. It was mainly a fig orchard

Our city has a lot of interesting history.  I visit the many museums often.  Here is a photo of our Rose Parade back in the 1800's.

I think I know quite a lot about my city. About a 100 to 200 years ago , fine Mughal rulers ruled the city and it was their capital and quite a famous , rich city.(that was about it in the worlds smallest nutshell)