Historical resources offer amass information and evidence about days past. Textual information often captures accounts of memories, experiences, stories, and facts. Illustrated or graphical information display scenes, landscapes, and infrastructure, while cartographic drawings or prints often depict or capture a moment in time. Intertwining graphical representations of places with textual data avails details and organizes historical facts about places, people and the interconnection between them. In this paper, the authors share the work they have completed creating a historical database of pre and-post-war settlers, inventors, entrepreneurs, and laborers. Their sprawling businesses have impacted the small city, changing the geographic and cultural landscape of it. By using historical resources, the authors have developed modern historical maps to tell the story of the history of the city and their people. Thematic analysis will be discussed, including covering business types, longevity, and loss due to urbanization and transportation development