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History · Wayland
Wayland’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Wayland yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
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What stands out about Wayland’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Wayland’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wayland’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story How Wayland came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Wayland.
Read it all → Wayland was laid out in 1880. The city was named for Jerre Wayland, a pioneer settler. A post office called Wayland has been in operation since 1874.
Sickles Tavern was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
By decade No old photos in the archives yet Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Memory lane What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Wayland? → Who remembers Wayland in the 1950s? → A family story from old Wayland → Does anyone have photos of Wayland from the 1990s? →
From Wikipedia and Wikidata for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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