Lowman’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Lowman. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The community was named for a homesteader, Nathaniel Winfield Lowman, from Polk County, Iowa, who settled there in 1907.
Lowman is notable for having a one-room school, one of only a couple hundred still in use in the United States.
A devastating wildfire ravaged the area around Lowman 37 years ago in 1989; it destroyed over 45,000 acres (70 mi2; 180 km2) and 26 structures, but without injuries or fatalities.
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Start Lowman’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lowman’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewBeaver Creek Work Station, Log Ca…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Lowman, decade by decade
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Nothing in Lowman is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lowman has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Placerville Historic District in Placerville, 18.6 miles away.
Lowman 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 Beaver Creek Work Station, Log Cabin and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.