History · Chandler

Chandler’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Chandler. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Chandler Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 454 at the 2020 census. The township was organized in 1879.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 472 to 454 (-4%). Half of its homes were built before 1958.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Chandler yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1904Plat book of Huron County, Michigan - also patr…Commons
1910–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Chandler’s history is told.

1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewPlat book of Huron County, Michig…, 1904: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

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By decade

Chandler, decade by decade

1910s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Chandler is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Chandler has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District in Fairhaven, 10.5 miles away.

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Bay Port Historic Commercial Fishing District’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Chandler?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Chandler’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Plat book of Huron County, Michigan - also patron's business and general farmer's directory of Huron Co., Mich. - with … (1904) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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