Ahwahnee’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Ahwahnee. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Southern Sierra Miwok communities lived for thousands of years around present-day Ahwahnee, near the boundary with neighboring Yokuts peoples. In 1907, ethnologist C. Hart Merriam recorded a Southern Sierra Miwok village called Was-sa'-ma on Wassama Creek near the Ahwahnee stage station. Ethnologist Samuel Alfred Barrett recorded Wasa'ma as the Native name for the site of present-day Ahwahnee. The name Ahwahnee instead came from awa'ni, a Native name associated with Yosemite Valley.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Ahwahnee’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ahwahnee’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old view1961 Harlow Fire photo 2, 1961: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Ahwahnee
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Ahwahnee, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Ahwahnee is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Ahwahnee has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Mariposa Grove Museum in Wawona, 12.1 miles away.
Ahwahnee and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 1961 Harlow Fire photo 2 (1961) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.