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Anderson’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Anderson. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
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From Anderson’s archive · credits on each photo What stands out about Anderson’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Anderson’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Anderson’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. The story How Anderson came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Anderson.
Read it all → Anderson is named after Arthur Anderson, one of several homesteaders who settled in the area in the late 1950s. In 1959, Anderson subdivided his homestead into house lots and sold most of the lots to civilian workers from Clear Air Force Station, a Ballistic Missile Early Warning System station completed in 1961. An elementary school was built in the community in 1961, and Anderson incorporated as a city on June 2, 1962.
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Anderson, decade by decade Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view Clear Air Force Station, Ballistic Missile Early Warning System Site II, One mile west of mile marker 293.5 on Parks Hi… Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Anderson’s page.
Retake this view · +15 Famous people Famous people close to Anderson Nobody well known was born in Anderson itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
See all → Memory lane What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Anderson? → Who remembers Anderson in the 1950s? → A family story from old Anderson → Does anyone have photos of Anderson from the 1990s? →
From the Library of Congress (1) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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