A Shotgun House and a Lost Census: 305 Harrison Avenue, Mt. Sterling, Kentucky
March 15, 2022
The loss of the 1890 census, any historian or genealogist will tell you, was devastating. When a fire broke out in the Commerce Building in Washington, DC in 1921, I don’t imagine many people thought about the results of that conflagration, and the destruction of the information gathered in the Eleventh Census. For me, trying (read more)