Granby’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Granby. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In 1850, while traveling through Missouri on his way to St. Louis, Missouri, William Foster discovered galena ore while digging along Gum Spring Branch (Creek) on the property of settler Madison Vickery. Mr. Foster & Mr. Vickery opened the first shaft harvesting this ore, leading to the "Granby Stampede" two years later, a mine rush that populated the town. A post office was founded in Granby and has been in operation since 1856. The community took its name from Granby, Massachusetts.That same year, the towns first railroad tracks were laid. In 1857, Peter F. Blow and F. B. Kennett formed The Granby Mining and Smelting Company to smelt the mined lead. By 1859, Granby was a boom town of more than 8,000 people. The Granby Mining and Smelting Company lasted throughout most of the Civil War, held at various times by both Union and Confederate troops, until the Confederates finally blew up t…
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Start Granby’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Granby’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old view"Interior view of Blow & Kennett'…, 1867: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Granby
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Nothing in Granby is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Granby has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Second Battle of Newtonia Site in Newtonia, 4.9 miles away.
Granby 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 "Interior view of Blow & Kennett's Lead Furnaces, Granby, Mo." (1867) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.