Joppa’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Joppa. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗During the first part of the 19th century, a riverboat landing known as Copeland's Landing operated at what is now Joppa. In the early 1870s, A.J. Kuykendall, a prominent local land owner, and Jesse Baccus, who operated a local sawmill, decided to establish a town. They named the town after the Biblical city of Joppa (in modern Israel). After the arrival of the railroad in 1900, the village thrived for several years as a river-to-rail transloading station. Joppa incorporated in 1901. Joppa has since lost a lot of population and stores, now only having a school and a few hundred people living there.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Joppa’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Joppa’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewJoppa Steam Plant on Ohio River (…, 1958: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Joppa, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Joppa Steam Plant on Ohio River (NBY 428944) (1958) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.