A history of Escanaba,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Escanaba from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Many native tribes have inhabited the area along Green Bay that is today Escanaba, including the Noquet, Potawatomi, Menominee and Ojibwe. "Escanaba" was the name of an Ojibwe village in this area in the early 19th century. The Ojibwa are one of the Anishinaabe, Algonquian-speaking tribes who settled and flourished around the Great Lakes. The word "Escanaba" roughly translates from Ojibwe and other regional Algonquian languages to "land of the red buck", although some people maintain that it refers to "flat rock".
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Escanaba’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewOre Dock at Escanaba, length 1300…, 1867: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Escanaba, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Ore Dock at Escanaba, length 1300 feet (1867) and it appears here side by side.
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National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the Library of Congress (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.