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Colerain’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Colerain yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
0 old photos & papers
1 historic places
1 famous people
What stands out about Colerain’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · On the National Register 1 listing protects 172 historic buildings The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
172
each building in a district counts
first listed
2020
Colerain Historic District
in North Carolina
#267
by listings
All 1 listings National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Help out Start Colerain’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Colerain’s history is told.
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
The story so far Colerain, in brief Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Colerain yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Colerain is a town in Bertie County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Colerain had a population of 217.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 204 to 217 (+6%).
Intro from Wikipedia . Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
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 Colerain? → Who remembers Colerain in the 1950s? → A family story from old Colerain → Does anyone have photos of Colerain from the 1990s? →
From the National Register of Historic Places (1) 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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