Chatham’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Chatham. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The newly established, post-Revolutionary War state of New Jersey went through several stages setting out how its local governments would be structured. Townships were drawn that included villages and open land. Once boroughs became available in New Jersey as a form of local government after 1878, between 1889 and 1899 Chatham Township lost all but one of the villages drawn into it, including Chatham (settled in 1710), which had been drawn into the new township in 1806. They seceded as soon as the bourough form of government became available.
Only Green Village, another early town that, like Chatham, dates to colonial times, was left under jurisdiction of "Chatham Township".
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Start Chatham’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Chatham’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo4 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewCrane House: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Chatham
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Chatham, decade by decade
2000
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Crane House and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.