Big Bend’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Big Bend. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗For several thousand years prior to the 19th century, Big Bend was the heart of the territory of the Madesi tribe (pronounced Mah-day-see) tribe (or "band") of Pit River Native Americans. The Madesi is one of nine bands (also called "tribelets") that spoke the Achomawi language. (Early anthropologists mistakenly called all nine bands in the language group "Achomawi," although only one of the bands was actually called Achomawi.)
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Big Bend’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Big Bend’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewPhotographs, with captions, of ol…, 1936: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Big Bend
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Big Bend, decade by decade
1990s
unknown1 item
Nothing in Big Bend is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Big Bend has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is McCloud in McCloud, 20 miles away.
Big Bend 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 Photographs, with captions, of old and new homes for old man at Big Bend, California, from "Annual Report of... - NARA … (1936) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.