Santee’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Santee. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusSantee is the principal village of the Santee Sioux Reservation in Knox County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2020 census, Santee had a population of 424.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 346 to 424 (+23%). Half of its homes were built before 1978.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Santee yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Santee’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Santee’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewInterior of Chapel of the Mercifu…, 1870: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Santee, decade by decade
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Interior of Chapel of the Merciful Saviour (1870) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.