A history of Stanley,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Stanley from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Fur trappers of the Hudson's Bay Company discovered the Stanley Basin in the 1820s, but it was mostly avoided due to scarcity of beaver. Captain John Stanley, a Confederate Civil War veteran, led a party of twenty-three prospectors through the area in 1863 (or 1864), but they found little gold and moved on and discovered the Atlanta lode on the south end of the Sawtooths. The site was not considered a town until 1919 when its streets and lots were surveyed and recorded.
Stanley has long been a gathering place for the sparsely populated region.
In 2005, Hannah Stauts won the city's mayoral election at age 22 to become the state's youngest elected mayor.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Stanley’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewCabin 1, interior of dining room …, 1933: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Stanley, decade by decade
CommonsCabin 1, interior of dining room facing east looking into k…1933
CommonsCabin 1, interior of dining room facing southwest showing f…1933
CommonsCabin 1, view facing north. Rubble fieldstone chimney. - Pe…1933
CommonsCabin 1, view facing northeast. Storage shed addition at ri…1933
CommonsCabin 1, view facing southwest. Storage shed addition at le…1933
CommonsCabin 2, interior view facing southwest showing fireplace a…1933
CommonsCabin 2, view facing northeast showing rubble fieldstone ch…1933
CommonsCabin 2, view facing northwest. - Peavy Cabins, Cabin 2, Bl…1933
CommonsCabin 2, view facing southeast. - Peavy Cabins, Cabin 2, Bl…1933
CommonsCabin 3, interior view facing northeast. - Peavy Cabins, Ca…1933
CommonsCabin 3, interior view facing southeast. - Peavy Cabins, Ca…1933
CommonsCabin 3, view facing northeast. - Peavy Cabins, Cabin 3, Bl…19331990s
2 historic places in Stanley
2 places in Stanley are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Cabin 1, interior of dining room facing east looking into kitchen. - Peavy Cabins, Cabin 1, Block A, Lot 1 (1933) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (12). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.