A history of Roseville,
since 1840
Postcards, papers and photographs of Roseville from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first permanent post office in the area was established in 1840 by William Rose who named it "Roseville" in honor of his father Dennison Rose, a veteran of the War of 1812.
The village of Roseville was incorporated in 1926, and the municipal building was constructed in 1929 at Gratiot Avenue and Meier Road. This replaced the Erin Township Building that was built near the corner of 11 Mile Road and Gratiot in 1886. The 1929 building housed administrative offices as well as the police and fire departments until the 1960s, when separate police and fire stations were constructed. City offices remained in the building until 1974.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Roseville’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewDimitri's Fine Food sign, 1986: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Roseville, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Dimitri's Fine Food sign (1986) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (12). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.