Ashland’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Ashland. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Ashland was founded in 1853. It was named for the Ashland estate of Kentucky Congressman Henry Clay in Lexington, Kentucky. Clay was instrumental in the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which allowed Missouri's admission as the 24th state.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Ashland’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ashland’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewNick Phillips, eighty-one years o…, 1936: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Ashland
See all 2 →Ashland, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Ashland is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Ashland has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Maplewood in Columbia, 7.3 miles away.
Ashland 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 Nick Phillips, eighty-one years old with wife in front of house. Ashland, Missouri. Missouri game and arboretum project… (1936) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.