Adams’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Adams. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Settlement began around 1800 at Adams village. David Smith built a sawmill at the present site of Adams in 1801. Renamed for John Adams in 1802 (the year after his presidency ended), the town of Adams was created from the survey townships of Aleppo and Orpheus. The eastern part of Adams was taken in 1804 to form the town of Rodman. During the War of 1812, the town of Adams formed a local militia for home defense.
The Talcott Falls Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Adams’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Adams’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewAdams (Village); Adams Business D…, 1864: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Adams
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Adams, decade by decade
Nothing in Adams is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Adams has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Adams Commercial Historic District in Adams, 0.1 miles away.
Adams and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Adams (Village); Adams Business Directory (1864) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (12). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.