Moorhead’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Moorhead. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusMoorhead is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 2,405. This dropped in 2022 and the population recorded was 1,512.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 2,405 to 1,937 (-19%). Half of its homes were built before 1979.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Moorhead 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 Moorhead’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Moorhead’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewAlmeda Gardner Industrial School, 1895: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Moorhead
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Moorhead, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Moorhead is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Moorhead has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Indianola Historic District in Indianola, 8.2 miles away.
Moorhead 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 Almeda Gardner Industrial School (1895) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.