Liberty’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Liberty. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusLiberty Township is a township in Daviess County, Missouri, United States. At the 2020 census, its population was 865. Liberty Township was established in 1869.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 915 to 865 (-5%). Half of its homes were built before 1991.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Liberty yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Liberty’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Liberty’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewRuins of jail where Joseph Smith,…, 1904: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Liberty, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Ruins of jail where Joseph Smith, Hyrum Smith, and other Mormon leaders were imprisoned (1904) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.