The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗A former settlement and GNRR station called Mortimer was built in Dows Township between 1914 and 1915. Mortimer had a population of roughly 11 before the station was destroyed in 1940.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dows’s history is told.
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Before
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No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your albumNational Register of Historic Places
Nothing in Dows is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Dows has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Baldwin's Arcade in Hope, 17.9 miles away.
Dows and the nearest listed places
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How a place gets listed
1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Baldwin's Arcade’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Dows?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Dows’s story, or a memory of it.
📷 Add a photo of an old placeNational Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.