From Wrangell, Alaska, to Oatman, Arizona, you'll be surprised to see what these places looked like a century ago.

Byrd Green Bank Telescope observatory and met an astronomer who gave them a tour. The two soon realized there could be an opportunity to do research at the observatory as a high school student.

How did a successful, financially sophisticated banker gamble his community’s money away? The former Heartland Tri-State Bank in Elkhart, Kan.Credit...Benjamin Rasmussen for The New York Times ...

A small town ... Ferry until the town was named more a century later in 1810 after John Lambert, a resident who served as a US Senator and governor of New Jersey in the early 1800s, the town ...

Small mining towns flourished ... a member of Congress from the district. Today, the town has a population of 350, according to 2020 census data. The state bank in Normal, Nebraska, is pictured ...