West Point’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of West Point. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The city's present name comes from its being near the westernmost point of the Chattahoochee River, where the river turns from its southwesterly flow from the Appalachian Mountains to due south – for all practical purposes – and forms the boundary with Alabama. Prior to being named West Point, the area was commonly referred to as Miller's Bend.
The large nearby reservoir, West Point Lake, was created by the Army Corps of Engineers by the building of the West Point Dam, for water storage and hydroelectric power generation. The reservoir stores water which can be released during dry seasons, in order to maintain the water level of the navigable inland waterway from Columbus, Georgia, south to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart West Point’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how West Point’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewHistoric American Buildings Surve…, 1936: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from West Point
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West Point, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Historic American Buildings Survey L. D. Andrew - Photographer May 24, 1936. FRONT VIEW - Booker House, Chattahoochee R… (1936) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.