The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Lamar was laid out at its current site in 1887 when the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was extended to that point. It was named for Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II, a former Confederate soldier and diplomat who wrote the Mississippi Ordinance of Secession and who served as United States Secretary of the Interior in the Grover Cleveland administration.
A post office was established at Lamar in 1887, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1995.
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Start Lamar’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lamar’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Lamar, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Lamar is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lamar has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Venango Public School in Venango, 13.4 miles away.
Lamar and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories 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.