Madison’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 12 old photos of Madison. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first white settlers in the land that would become Madison Township were Win Winship, Jacob Stettler, Charles Poulston and James Taylor, all of whom arrived in 1829. The first post office was at Winship's Mills with E. Winship as the first postmaster.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Madison’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Madison’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo8 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewLieutenant Colonel William G. Man…, 1863: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Madison, decade by decade
1990s
unknown8 items
LOCDate?Madison & Indianapolis Railroad
LOCDate?Town of Madison
LOCDate?Bachman House, Lonesome Hollow
LOCDate?Maywood, Maywood Lane
LOCDate?Main Street (Commercial Buildings)
LOCDate?First Baptist Church, 416 Vine Street
LOCDate?John Eckert House, 510 West Second Street
LOCDate?Tobacco Prizing House, 116 Elm StreetNothing in Madison is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Madison has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Dayton Historic District in Dayton, 6.4 miles away.
Madison 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 Lieutenant Colonel William G. Mank provides the eulogy at the funeral of Lieutenant Colonel Jacob Glass (1863) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (11). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.