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History · Dexter
Dexter’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Dexter yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
What stands out about Dexter’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Dexter’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dexter’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story How Dexter came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Dexter.
Read it all → The first post office at Dexter was established in July, 1870.
Platted in 1875, Dexter is named for a trotting horse belonging to Robert Bonner of New York.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
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What used to stand where something else is now in Dexter? → Who remembers Dexter in the 1950s? → A family story from old Dexter → Does anyone have photos of Dexter from the 1990s? →
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