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