A history of Mound,
since 1857
Postcards, papers and photographs of Mound from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Mound City was incorporated in 1857 as a union of two cities: Mound City, founded by Major General Moses Marshal Rawlings, and Emporium City, a project of the Emporium Real Estate and Manufacturing Company, a group of Cincinnati and Cairo businessmen. The city took its name from a Native American mound on which guests at General Rawlings' hotel would sleep in summer, as the breezes cooled them and dispersed the mosquitoes.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Mound’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMississippi squadron, 1862: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Mound, decade by decade
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Mississippi squadron (1862) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.