Phillips’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Phillips. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The plantation was part of a large tract granted by Massachusetts about 1790 to Jonathan Phillips of Boston. It was first settled in 1791 by Perkins Allen from Martha's Vineyard, a sea captain who called it Curvo. It was incorporated on February 25, 1812, and named for Phillips. The town was noted both for its productive soil, with hay the chief crop, and its superior water power. At falls along the Sandy River were erected sawmills, gristmills, a fulling mill and a carding machine.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Phillips’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Phillips’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMain Street, From Union Church To…, 1907: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Phillips
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Phillips, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Sandy River Railroad's 2-foot gauge Forney locomotive No.1 at (c. 1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (4) and the National Register (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.