Craig’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Craig. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗During the 19th century the land near Craig was inhabited by the Pawnee, Otoe-Missouria, and Omaha people. American Indian inhabitants were numerous when white settlement began in the 1860s.
The village was established as a water-station on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway and named for early settler William Stewart Craig, who in the early 1880s donated the land on which the town was built. Craig was laid out in 1881.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Craig’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Craig’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewView of the train station, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Craig
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Craig, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Craig is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Craig has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Oakland City Auditorium in Oakland, 6.4 miles away.
Craig 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 View of the train station (1908) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.