The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗A post office was established in 1859 and Mercer was platted in the 1870s when the railroad was extended to that point. The original named of the community was Marion for Marion Merwitt, the daughter of a local pharmacist, but the town was incorporated in 1886 under the name Mercer.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mercer’s history is told.
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Mercer, decade by decade
Before
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Mercer is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Mercer has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Pleasant Hill School in Clio, 8 miles away.
Mercer and the nearest listed places
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How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Pleasant Hill School’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Mercer?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Mercer’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.