St. Paul’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of St. Paul. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗St. Paul was founded by two young surveyors, James N. and Nicholas J. Paul, who had been surveying in Nebraska and the surrounding areas as the land opened to settlers. Struck by the beauty and the prospects of the Loup valley, they took out homesteads, successfully petitioned the state legislature to form a new county to be known as Howard County, and laid out the townsite. They brought the first settlers to the county in March 1871 and established the seat of government in St. Paul. Stillman Hazeltine put up the first building for a general store and town hall in the summer of 1871. That first building burned a few years later and the brick building which replaced it is still in use with his name and date 1871 on the front.
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Start St. Paul’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how St. Paul’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewShelterbelts: Windbreaks - Nebras…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from St. Paul
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St. Paul, decade by decade
2000
unknown1 item
1 historic place in St. Paul
1 place in St. Paul is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Shelterbelts: Windbreaks - Nebraska and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (7) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.