Culture Grams
Cultural information for travelers and school reports about
customs, recipes, music, political and social life around the world. 

Click here for access outside of the library, your library card will be needed.

Heritage Quest Online ~ U.S. Federal Census from
1790 - 1930 as well as thousands of community
and family histories - including the 1906 Illustrated History of Skagit and Snohomish County!
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Local and Regional History Websites to Know	National & International History Websites to Know
The Burlington Public Library has special local history resources (e.g. Burlington school yearbooks and newspapers)  Please ask at our information desk.
HistoryLink.org Skagit County Historical Museum Washington State Facts - Geography, History, Population, Climate, State Symbols, Census, etc. Washington State Historical Society Washington State History: This site includes State Archives and Library collections being digitize to provide access to vital records, newspapers, maps, pioneer life histories, Rural Heritage Digital Collections, plus special features	American Memory Timeline - Contains primary resources about colonial settlement up to postwar era United States from the Library of Congress. Digital Public Library of America American FactFinder: Get population, housing, economic, and geographic statistics data about the United States from the U.S. Census Bureau. Charters of Freedom: Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, or the Bill of Rights - full transcripts for each historical document, as well as high resolution images of the originals.
Center for Pacific Northwest Studies (Western Washington University) has a small group of photographs in the Galen Biery Papers and Photographs Collection showing random views of historical Burlington. Skagit River Journal: Online "database" of transcribed and annotated historical documents, photographs and books on the history of the greater Skagit Valley area.	Library of Congress Digital Collections - photographs, newspapers, oral histories archiving. Primary Source materals for Social Studies CBAS from the National Archives Bracero History Archives National Portal to Historical Collections managed by the American Heritage Society
Stump Ranch Online - The Stump Ranch - Family & Community History of the Upper Skagit Valley Skagit River History by Larry Kunzler Historical Newspapers in the Washington State Libraries	BBC Country Profiles Country Studies: The Library of Congress series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world
Historic Flood Article Archives: Transcribed newspaper articles on Skagit River floods dating over more than a century. Skagit Valley Genealogical Society Skagit County Washington : U.S. GenWeb Project includes a yearbooks, directories and other miscellaneous Skagit Valley documents. Museum of History and Industry	World Factbook: Created and updated by the CIA, this guide includes maps, flags, facts, and demographics for the countries of the world.  Entries for each country include information on geography, people, government, economy, military, and more World Digital Library
Anacortes History Museum Samish Island History Historic Maps Works - containing local and national maps
1907 (Aug. 2) Burlington Journal article (pdf) "Burlington Center of Traffic for Skagit County"