I have no sidewalk stamp for you today, so in lieu of that, I’m sharing a neat local history resource that has been recently added to the Capital Area District Library’s digital collection. It consists of scans of the ledger in which construction permits were recorded from 1923 until 1992, organized by street name. Amazingly, the book itself changed very little in that time, with each line still handwritten in 1992 much as in 1923. I was able to find the original construction permit for my house, in among a veritable flurry of building going on in the late 1920s on my street. This is probably the least sidewalk-related post I have yet made, but it does connect with the interest in local history that this blog has fostered in me, particularly the small-potatoes stuff like when a particular house was built and how a given block has changed over time.