A history of Binghamton,
since 1834
Postcards, papers and photographs of Binghamton from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The first known people of European descent to come to the area were the troops of the Sullivan Expedition in 1779, during the American Revolutionary War, who destroyed local villages of the Onondaga and Oneida tribes. The city was named after William Bingham, a wealthy Philadelphian who bought the 10,000 acre patent for the land in 1786, then consisting of parts of the towns of Union and Chenango. Joshua Whitney Jr., Bingham's land agent, chose land at the junction of the Chenango and Susquehanna Rivers to develop a settlement, then named Chenango Point. After being officially conveyed the land by Bingham on July 4, 1800, Whitney arranged for the construction of the settlement's first two streets, Court Street and Water Street, and the first residence was built later that year. Whitney continued to expand Chenango Point and sell plots to new settlers, and helped erect the first bridge i…
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Binghamton’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewChrist Church, 1850: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Binghamton
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Binghamton, decade by decade
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Christ Church (1850) and it appears here side by side.
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From Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.