A history of Folsom,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Folsom from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Folsom gives its name to the nearby type site for the Folsom Tradition, a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 11000 and 8000 BC. The Folsom site, about 8 miles west of the village, was excavated in 1926, and found to have been a marsh-side kill site or camp where 23 bison had been killed using distinctive tools, known as Folsom points.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Folsom’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewFolsom, New Mexico flood 1908, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Folsom, decade by decade
1990s
1 historic place in Folsom
1 place in Folsom 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 Folsom, New Mexico flood 1908 (1908) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories 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.