A history of Vincennes,
since 1732
Postcards, papers and photographs of Vincennes from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The vicinity of Vincennes was inhabited for thousands of years by different cultures of indigenous peoples. During the Late Woodland period, some of these peoples used local loess hills as burial sites; some of the more prominent examples are the Sugar Loaf Mound and the Pyramid Mound. In historic times, prominent local Indian groups who drove these people out were the Shawnee, Wabash, and the Miami tribe.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Vincennes’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewSamuel Williams, 1913: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Vincennes
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Vincennes, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Samuel Williams (1913) and it appears here side by side.
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From Wikimedia Commons (9) and the National Register (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.