Our Story · Lake
Lake’s story is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Lake. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
2old images & papers
3recent photos
Timeline
built from the dates on the items below1900Bathing at Lake James, IndianaLOC
1911Spring Point, James Lake, IndLOC
1920–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Start Lake’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lake’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewBathing at Lake James, Indiana, 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10By decade
Lake, decade by decade
1900s1 item
1910s1 item
1920s–
1990s
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Bathing at Lake James, Indiana (1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.