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Ancient Web: Friends of the Creeks Kept Walnut Creek's Waterways in Public Memory

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.

Ancient Web: The Petawawa Legion Community Band Put Its Local History Online in 1998

The Petawawa Legion Community Band launched its website in 1998 and preserved decades of community music history, directors, performances, photographs, and anniversary writing.

Ancient Web: Virtual Saskatchewan Built an Independent Ezine About One Province

Virtual Saskatchewan turned local people, places, oddities, artists, history, and prairie culture into an independent regional web magazine beginning in 1997.

Ancient Web: Brookline Connection Built a Neighborhood History Archive in 1998

Brookline Connection has documented one Pittsburgh neighborhood since 1998 with maps, photographs, transit history, municipal records, schools, churches, and local memory.

Ancient Web: RailroadMichigan Built a Noncommercial Photo History of Michigan Railroads

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.

Ancient Web: Carolana Built an Almost-Everything History of South Carolina

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.

Ancient Web: Racinehistory.com Built a Family-Run Wisconsin History Archive

Racinehistory.com has preserved local timelines, manufacturing history, community stories and Gerald Karwowski's decades of collecting around Racine County, Wisconsin.

Ancient Web: Hose Company No. 1 Put a 1908 Volunteer Firehouse Online

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.

Ancient Web: Hannu Asikainen Photographed More Than 850 Finnish Churches

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.

Ancient Web: Ayr.org Gave a Scottish Town Its Own Corner of the Web

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.

Ancient Web: ARRT's ARRCHIVES Is a Giant Hand-Built Museum of the Long Island Rail Road

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.