Neighborhood Hirakata

Isn't a quiant bit of relastate?What stood out to me the most in Hirakata though there are the large quantites of electrical lines and telephone lines everywhere, there are some things that are trying to be preserved.
On the other hand, so little of the preservation is left that one can hardly tell that this recently made metropolis had once been a farming town, (http://www.city.hirakata.osaka.jp/freepage/gyousei/hpcontent/eng/welcome_hira.htm). I must ask "where can one go to find out about the former Hirakata-shi?" Where can the history be found?