Avon’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Avon. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area around and including what would become Avon village was inhabited for millennia by Paleo-Indians and later by the Seneca people, the westernmost tribe of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois). After the Iroquois title to the land was extinguished in 1788 with the Phelps and Gorham Purchase, white and Black settlement of the area began. In 1789, Dr. Timothy Hosmer, Maj. Isaiah Thompson, William Wadsworth, and others from Hartford, Connecticut, purchased a tract east of the Genesee River and named it "Hartford" after their homeland. The town was organized in 1797. The town's name was changed to "Avon" in 1808 to avoid confusion with another Hartford in Washington County, New York. In 1818, part of the town was removed to form the new town of Rush. County lines shifted as well, Avon and Rush both being part of Ontario County until the formation of Livingston County and Monroe County in 182…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Avon’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Avon’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewAvon Springs Sanitarium Sulphur B…, 1906: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Avon
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Avon, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Avon is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Avon has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Hall's Opera Block in Avon, 0.1 miles away.
Avon 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 Avon Springs Sanitarium Sulphur Baths ("American medical directory", 1906 advert) (1906) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.