History · Flanagan

Flanagan’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Flanagan. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Flanagan is a village in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Flanagan had a population of 1,010.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,110 to 1,010 (-9%). Half of its homes were built before 1945.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Flanagan yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1958Flanagan quadrangle, Illinois : 15 minute seriesCommons
1960–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Flanagan’s history is told.

1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFlanagan quadrangle, Illinois : 1…, 1958: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Famous people from Flanagan

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By decade

Flanagan, decade by decade

1960s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Flanagan is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Flanagan has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Memorial Bandstand of Long Point in Long Point, 9 miles away.

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. Memorial Bandstand of Long Point’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Flanagan?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Flanagan’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Flanagan quadrangle, Illinois : 15 minute series (1958) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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