Our Story · Vail

Vail’s story is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Vail. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1old images & papers
5recent photos

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
19815 of Roger Puta's SignalsCommons
1990–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Start Vail’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Vail’s history is told.

1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old view5 of Roger Puta's Signals, 1981: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
By decade

Vail, decade by decade

1990s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 5 of Roger Puta's Signals (1981) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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