The Titanic Tragedy and One Last Year Without Taxes

This Week in History: April 14–20, 1912

Welcome to a journey through the South’s past, one week at a time. Get to know our region’s people, places, events, and stories—including lesser-known headlines that didn’t make the front page. Whenever pertinent, I’ll include personal connections I or members of my family had to what was going on at the time. 

This week, we travel 112 years back in time…