As the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary this year, I looked back at the July 5, 1976, special bicentennial editions of the El Paso Times and the Herald Post.
The following article “turned back the clock” to examine the early days and organization of El Paso County, then the “largest county in the largest state of the greatest republic in the world.”
From the Bicentennial Edition of the Herald Post, July 5, 1976:
County Commissioners’ minutes prove there’s nothing new
Turn back the clock and attend a meeting of El Paso County Commissioners on Nov. 8, 1882. Minutes of the session are historical proof that there’s really nothing new under the sun…