Friends of the Creeks grew out of Walnut Creek's early-1990s creek-restoration planning and used the Web to preserve local creek history alongside cleanup, habitat-restoration, flood-control, and watershed advocacy.
The Petawawa Legion Community Band launched its website in 1998 and preserved decades of community music history, directors, performances, photographs, and anniversary writing.
Virtual Saskatchewan turned local people, places, oddities, artists, history, and prairie culture into an independent regional web magazine beginning in 1997.
Brookline Connection has documented one Pittsburgh neighborhood since 1998 with maps, photographs, transit history, municipal records, schools, churches, and local memory.
RailroadMichigan is a hobby-built photographic archive covering current and historical railroads across Michigan and the Great Lakes region, including rosters, short lines, interurbans, equipment, and contributed images.
J.D. Lewis's Carolana project has spent more than two decades organizing South Carolina history into timelines, maps, counties, towns, government records, transportation, wars and colonial-era reference pages.
Racinehistory.com has preserved local timelines, manufacturing history, community stories and Gerald Karwowski's decades of collecting around Racine County, Wisconsin.
An old volunteer-fire-company website preserves more than announcements: it records the 1908 founding of an East Rockaway hose company, its firehouse history, local contact information, and even a Flash-era training-video page.
Hannu Asikainen's personal site grew into a photographic archive of more than 850 Finnish churches, along with disappearing village shops, changing streetscapes, monuments, landscapes and other local-history material.
Ayr.org is an independent town-oriented site for Ayr, Scotland, combining photographs, history, maps and local information outside the standardized structure of municipal and travel platforms.
Arthur John Huneke's ARRT's ARRCHIVES documents Long Island Rail Road history through photographs, timetables, track plans, newspaper clippings, tickets, branch histories and relentless correction of tiny details.