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'Bringing Back the Past' Answer Revealed

Did you guess the correct answer to this week's question?

In a Patch Poll yesterday, we asked you to guess how many “man hours” it took to clear Ela Township Roads during the infamous blizzard of 1967.

According to an article from the defunct The Frontier Enterprise newspaper on file at the , it took 210 man hours to clear the roads after the storm. The article says it took just 18 man hours to clear the streets after a typical snowstorm.

Stay tuned for next week's local history question!

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