The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The LaSalle Carbon Coal Company sunk the Number 5 Mine in 1906. The village was incorporated in 1922. The mine closed in 1924.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cedar Point’s history is told.
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Cedar Point is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cedar Point has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Westclox Manufacturing Plant Historic District in Peru, 4.5 miles away.
Cedar Point and the nearest listed places
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How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Westclox Manufacturing Plant Historic District’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Cedar Point?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Cedar Point’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.