Old Appleton’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Old Appleton. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Although it is not known who the original native inhabitants were of the Old Appleton area, the area eventually become home to the Shawnee and Delaware Indians. Having originated in present-day Delaware and Pennsylvania, the Shawnee and Delaware Indians had been pushed off their lands by white settlement. In the 1780s, Pierre Louis Lorimier, a French Canadian who had worked as an Indian-interpreter for the British, found it in his best interest to leave the American states. He settled Cape Girardeau in the Ste. Genevieve District with his wife, who was of mixed French and Shawnee ancestry. Lorimier was subsequently made the Indian Agent by the Spanish colonial authorities. Like Lorimier, the Shawnee and Delaware Indians had sided with the British, and found themselves in an unsavory situation. Lorimier appealed for land grants from the Spanish authorities for the settlement of Shawnee a…
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Start Old Appleton’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Old Appleton’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo3 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewApple Creek Mill, Appleton, Cape …: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Old Appleton
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Old Appleton, decade by decade
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1 historic place in Old Appleton
1 place in Old Appleton is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Apple Creek Mill, Appleton, Cape Girardeau County, MO and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.