The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusEckerty is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Johnson Township, Crawford County, Indiana.
Half of its homes were built before 1977.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Eckerty 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.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eckerty’s history is told.
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Before
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2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Eckerty is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Eckerty has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Rickenbaugh House in Oil, 9.2 miles away.
Eckerty and the nearest listed places
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Closest to Eckerty
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. Rickenbaugh House’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Eckerty?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Eckerty’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.