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History · Harmon

Harmon’s history is mostly unwritten

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

1old photo or paper
From Harmon’s archive · credits on each photo

What stands out about Harmon’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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Start Harmon’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Harmon’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story so far

Harmon, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Harmon yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Harmon is a village in Lee County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, Harmon had a population of 111.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 120 to 111 (-8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Harmon, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s–1990snothing yet
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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Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Harmon IL Nov 6 1908
Retake this viewHarmon IL Nov 6 1908, 1908

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Harmon’s page.

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Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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From Wikimedia Commons (3). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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