Chelsea, MassachusettsGranite that crumbledA town fire hot enough to crumble granite. What burns that hot?Reports of the 1908 Chelsea fire say buildings of solid granite crumbled and were entirely destroyed.Clues Others Missed · Washington, D.C., United States (approx.)
The census that's missing
The open question
The census for the years of the great fairs is the one that's gone.
On the record
Most of the 1890 census was destroyed after a basement fire at the Commerce Department on 10 January 1921 and the disposal of damaged records.
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More from Clues Others Missed
Chelsea, MassachusettsGranite that crumbledA town fire hot enough to crumble granite. What burns that hot?Reports of the 1908 Chelsea fire say buildings of solid granite crumbled and were entirely destroyed.
Sydney, AustraliaThe fair palace that burned the land recordsOf all the papers to lose, the ones about who held the land first.When the 1879 Garden Palace burned in 1882 it was being used by government departments, and records of squatting occupation in New South Wales were lost.
SeattleCondemned two years before the fairClose the old level, then hold a world's fair. Same pattern as elsewhere?Seattle condemned the Underground in 1907, two years before the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
Turku, FinlandA burned layer in the groundFires leave layers. How many 'mud' layers are something else?A visible layer of burnt material from the 1827 fire has been photographed in the ground at Turku.