Barnhart’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Barnhart. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The land surrounding Barnhart originally belonged to Benjamin O'Fallon, who settled here with his family in 1834. The James O'Fallon Home was built in 1860, and was purchased in 1884 by Joseph G. Marriott, a cattle rancher who introducing the first Holstein cattle to Jefferson County. The extant home is now called the Parkton Mansion. The town was not named until after the Frisco Railroad was completed in the early 1900s, and may have been named for Mrs. C. L. Barnhart, who donated land for the Frisco Railroad Depot.
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Start Barnhart’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Barnhart’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo4 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewThe Cedars: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Barnhart
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Barnhart, decade by decade
2000
unknown4 items
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as The Cedars and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.