The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Truro was laid out and platted in 1881. It was first settled as Ohio Township in the early 1850s, by settlers who came primarily from Ohio. In 1881 the town was named after the city of Truro in Cornwall, United Kingdom, by suggestion of the local train conductor, whose hometown was Truro on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Truro’s history is told.
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Truro, decade by decade
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Nothing in Truro is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Truro has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is William Ogburn House in East Peru, 4.8 miles away.
Truro and the nearest listed places
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Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories 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.