Seeley’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Seeley. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first post office at Seeley was opened in 1909. The name honors Henry Seeley, an early developer of Imperial County.
Seeley is one of the oldest established communities in Imperial County, tracing its history back to the early years of the 20th century. It succeeded the town of Silsbee, which was originally established as a stage stop on the shores of the now drained Blue Lake. When irrigation channels from the Colorado River overflowed and flooded the basin of the Salton Sea between 1905 and 1907, the townsite of Silsbee was flooded and abandoned, and the new town of Seeley was established a few miles north.
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Start Seeley’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Seeley’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewSeeley ca welcome sign: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Seeley, decade by decade
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Nothing in Seeley is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Seeley has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is US Post Office-El Centro Main in El Centro, 7.5 miles away.
Seeley 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 Seeley ca welcome sign and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.