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Independence Day in Brigham City: Then and Now
Compton photo of Main Street in Brigham City decorated for Independence Day circa 1914. The Eddy building is in both photographs and the building peaking out just left of the flags is the building that now houses the Idle Isle. Zimmerman's pool and billiards parlor was replaced by the Hotel Brigham. Another point of interest is the hanging light that is also just left of the flag. Rumor is that the light was placed there, at the corner of Forest and Main, to notify the police
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Brigham City and the Liberty Bell
According to the website https://www.ushistory.org/libertybell/photos.html "In 1915, 500,000 schoolchildren signed a petition asking the city of Philadelphia to send the Liberty Bell to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of San Francisco. Philadelphia complied, and so the world's most famous symbol of liberty began its one and only tour of the nation." That tour reached Brigham City on Sunday, July 11, 1915. Mayor William Thomas Davis had been able to persuade railr
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