The public archives hold no old photos of Kiron yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kiron’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Kiron.
Kiron was platted in 1899. It was supposedly named after a place in China.
Another popular etymology theory is that the town was named after the Kidron Valley, in the Bible, but due to a typographical error, the D had been omitted.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nobody well known was born in Kiron itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.
From Wikimedia Commons (3) and Wikipedia. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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