"To Secure These Rights" Chapter Two: The Historian

# CHAPTER TWO ## The Historian The Calder County Historical Museum stood on the west side of the courthouse square in a building that had outlived almost every purpose for which it had been constructed. A brass plate near the entrance claimed the structure dated to 1911, when the county still had enough coal money passing through it to build banks from dressed stone and oak rather than drywall and laminated counters. The bank failed during the Depression, reopened under another name, failed again, and eventually became county property. During the years that followed, the building served as a tax...