Cleveland’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Cleveland. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Cleveland was established as a village in 1854, and incorporated as a city in 1904. The community was named after Cleveland, Ohio.
Under its original founders, Cleveland was a temperance town and thus voted no licensing of saloons in the town.
In 1859, Cleveland and nearby Le Sueur began a heated rivalry over the role of the Le Sueur county seat. The rivalry continued with only minor bloodshed until 1875, when a group of Cleveland citizens organized a militia to take the county seat by force. The militia retrieved the county seat from Le Sueur. After more than year of holding the county seat, Le Center agreed to take the seat where remains today.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Cleveland’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cleveland’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewGeldner Sawmill in, 1980: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Cleveland, decade by decade
1990s
unknown1 item
Nothing in Cleveland is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Cleveland has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is John R. Andrews House in Kasota, 4.5 miles away.
Cleveland and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Geldner Sawmill in (1980) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.