Dazey’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Dazey. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Dazey was founded in 1883 and named for Charles Turner Dazey, who moved there from Illinois to run a bonanza farm in the early 1880s. Mr. Dazey donated the land to start the townsite. Mr. Dazey later moved back to Illinois where he became a successful playwright. It was incorporated as a village in 1904, and reached a peak population of 293 in 1920. It became a city in 1967, after the North Dakota Legislature enacted legislation that eliminated all existing incorporation titles for towns and villages in the state.
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Start Dazey’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dazey’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewGrand Forks Air Force Base Painte…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Dazey, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Grand Forks Air Force Base Painted Murals, Missile Alert Facility November-Zero, Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, ND and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.