The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The name honors Llewellyn A. Nares, who owned the Rancho Laguna de Tache Mexican land grant. A post office operated at Lanare from 1912 to 1925. The Laton and Western Railway was built to Lanare in 1911.
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Be one of the first
Start Lanare’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lanare’s history is told.
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Lanare, decade by decade
Before
2000
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Lanare is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lanare has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Kings County Courthouse in Hanford, 17.6 miles away.
Lanare and the nearest listed places
Dashed line = Lanare. Tap a dot.
How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Kings County Courthouse’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Lanare?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Lanare’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.