The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗A post office at the site of Compton opened on May 18, 1841; it was named Melugin Grove after the village's first settler, Zachariah Melugin. The village's name was changed to Compton on July 16, 1873, after Joel Compton.
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Start Compton’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Compton’s history is told.
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Compton, decade by decade
Before
2000
2000
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 Compton is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Compton has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Stephen Wright House in Wyoming, 5.1 miles away.
Compton 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. Stephen Wright House’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Compton?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Compton’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.