Cassopolis’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Cassopolis. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Cassopolis was platted by European Americans in 1831. It had already been designated the county seat by that point. It was incorporated as a village in 1863. The county developed farming and some industry.
Cassopolis was a transit point on the Underground Railroad, by which sympathizers aided refugee slaves from the South to gain freedom in the North and in Canada. Some refugees continued through Michigan to settle in Canada in order to avoid risk under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which increased incentives for capture. Others remained in the area, with many African-Americans and people of mixed African-American and Sapponi and Pumenkey ancestry settling in Cass County.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Cassopolis’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cassopolis’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMen building the Cass County Pion…, 1923: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Cassopolis
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Cassopolis, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Men building the Cass County Pioneer Cabin (1923) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.