PLEASE NOTE:
The Historical Guide on wgtn.net ( within the Community Information section ) has been impacted by the sale of the commercial Internet company that was being used to store and organize some of the historical photos with their interesting narratives.

Links to the following categories of historical photo presentations were deleted by the new firm;
- Chautauqua Movement
- Churches
- Railroads & Trains
- Motels & Tourist Cabins
- Hospitals & Clinics
- Schools
- Nobles County Court House
- Ninth Street & Second Avenue
- Ninth Street & Third Avenue
- Ninth Street & Fourth Ave
- Tenth Street & Second Ave
- Tenth Street & Third Ave
- Tenth Street & Fourth Ave
- Tenth Street & Fifth Ave
- 10th St 1903
- Eleventh Street & First Ave
- Eleventh Street & Third Ave
- Looking NW early 1940's
- 1903 View towards Lake
- 1894 view
- Lake Okabena Gentle Slope

Also lost were the presentations of the demolition of Central Elementary and the Campbells Soup buildings.

The change in ownership, of that commercial firm, resulted in the narratives and all organization of historical photos in categories ( example: downtown photos were organized with each street being a separate presentation) being deleted and the Internet address (URL, or as commonly named “link”) was redirected to an advertisement for the visitor to join the new firm.

If you clicked on any of those link-outs expecting to see historical photos, before I found the problem, and were instead presented an advertisement, you may have thought that wgtn.net had been hacked. Wgtn.net is ok. The damage is limited to the loss of an outside commercial service that was paid to provide the facility that was used to organize and present historical photos with narratives.

Also, be aware that if you have bookmarked any of those historical presentations, those links are no longer valid.

I will be looking for a new facility to organize these categories of historic photos with narratives to replace this loss.

Using an outside commercial service to organize photos by category, with narratives and with “permanent” URL addresses that can be used as links from within wgtn.net was a much faster way to put together a presentation like this than my hand coding in HTML.

Loss of this service, just before Christmas, is like someone placed a lump of coal in my Christmas stocking.

Rebuilding these categories of historical photos with narratives will take a great deal of time. My best guess is, if a new facility can be found, that these will be back on wgtn.net some time next year.

The following presentations of special historical projects, did not use that commercial service, but were done in HTML and are on the wgtn.net Internet server, so they still remain available;
- 1882 Lake Okabena Geology Report
- 1901 Worthington Souvenir Pamphlet
- Early Bathhouses & Waterslides on Lake Okabena
- 1935 Worthington City Booklet

Also, some of the Lake Okabena historical photos remain available due to the fact that they were done in HTML and not part of the outside commercial service.