Long Rapids’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Long Rapids. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusLong Rapids Township is a civil township of Alpena County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 977 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,010 to 977 (-3%). Half of its homes were built before 1974.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Long Rapids 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.
Start Long Rapids’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Long Rapids’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo3 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewLong Rapids, Michigan (1903): stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Long Rapids, decade by decade
2000
unknown3 items
1 historic place in Long Rapids
1 place in Long Rapids is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Long Rapids, Michigan (1903) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.