A history of Goshen,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Goshen from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Before the arrival of white colonists, the land that is today Goshen, Indiana, had been populated by Native Americans, specifically the Miami people, the Peoria people, and Potawatomi peoples, for thousands of years. In 1830, the US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, requiring all indigenous people to relocate west of the Mississippi River.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Goshen’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewGoshen, Ind., dedication, Rogers …, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Goshen
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Goshen, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as "The prize winners" in the Elkhart County corn contest held at Goshen, Ind., Nov. 30, 1907 (1908) and it appears here side by side.
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National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (1), the Library of Congress (9) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.