Saturday to be big in Century

Saturday, April 21st the Town of Century and the Alger Sullivan Historical Society will be dedicating a marker commemorating the Alger Sullivan Lumber Company Residential Historic District. All are invited to the dedication ceremony starting at 2:00 pm at the corner of Front Street and Jefferson Avenue and to the reception following in the Leach House Museum (near the corner of Fourth Street and Jefferson Avenue).

Century began, under its current name, April 1901 as a sawmill town. The sawmill bosses laid out the town, built houses and schools, and gave lumber for the building of the Methodist...