Andrews’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Andrews. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Andrews was originally called Antioch, and under the latter name was platted in 1853. It was renamed Andrews in the 1880s, in honor of a railroad official, at the time when the railroad was built through the community.
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Start Andrews’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Andrews’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewAndrews-indiana-from-above: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Andrews
See all 1 →Andrews, decade by decade
2000
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Nothing in Andrews is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Andrews has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Young-Yentes-Mattern Farm in Dallas, 2.3 miles away.
Andrews and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Andrews-indiana-from-above and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.