Mooreland’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Mooreland. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Mooreland was platted in 1882 on farmland belonging to Miles M. Moore. A post office has been in operation in Mooreland since 1882.
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Start Mooreland’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mooreland’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewWilbur Wright State Memorial, Cou…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Mooreland, decade by decade
2000
unknown1 item
Nothing in Mooreland is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Mooreland has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is John & Caroline Stonebraker House in Hagerstown, 7.7 miles away.
Mooreland 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 Wilbur Wright State Memorial, County Road 750 East and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.