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History · Boonville

A history of Boonville,
then and now

Postcards, papers and photographs of Boonville from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.

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7recent photos
From Boonville’s archive · credits on each photo

The story

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The town was first settled c. 1795. The Town of Boonville was created in 1805 from the Town of Leyden.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1910s4 items · Schuyler StreetCommons
1920–1959Nothing in the archives yet
1968DETAIL VIEW OF GATE BETWEEN LOCKS 39 AND 40. - …Commons
1970–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Finish Boonville’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 viewSchuyler Street, c. 1910: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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By decade

Boonville, decade by decade

1910s4 items
Schuyler StreetCommonsSchuyler Streetc. 1910A glimpse of Boonville, N.YLOCA glimpse of Boonville, N.Y1910Boonville, N.YCommonsBoonville, N.Y1911Boonville, N.YLOCBoonville, N.Y1911
1920s–
1950s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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1960s1 item
DETAIL VIEW OF GATE BETWEEN LOCKS 39 AND 40. - Black River Canal, Locks 39-43, State Route 46CommonsDETAIL VIEW OF GATE BETWEEN LOCKS 39 AND 40. - Black River …1968
1970s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
📷 Add from your album
Today7 photos
Black River Canal WarehouseCommonsBlack River Canal Warehouse2020NY46 South SignCommonsNY46 South Sign2018NY46 South - Jct NY294 SignCommonsNY46 South - Jct NY294 Sign2018NY12D South - NY46 South - To NY294CommonsNY12D South - NY46 South - To NY2942018NY12 North - NY12D SigCommonsNY12 North - NY12D Sig2018NY 12 at NY 12D and Black River TrailCommonsNY 12 at NY 12D and Black River Trail2006HulbertHouseCommonsHulbertHouse2006
National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Boonville is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Boonville has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Black River Canal Warehouse in Boonville, 0.1 miles away.

Boonville and the nearest listed places

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Black River Canal WarehouseErwin Library and Pratt HouseUS Post Office-BoonvilleBoonville Historic DistrictTalcottville CemeteryLeyden Common School No. 2

Closest to Boonville

Black River Canal WarehouseBoonville · Building0.1miErwin Library and Pratt HouseBoonville · Built 18750.4miUS Post Office-BoonvilleBoonville · Colonial Revival0.4miBoonville Historic DistrictBoonville · Classical Revival0.4miTalcottville CemeteryLeyden · Site3.8mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Black River Canal Warehouse’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Boonville?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Boonville’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Schuyler Street (c. 1910) and it appears here side by side.

🔁 Retake this view · +15

Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Boonville📜 Leyden📜 Port Leyden📜 Ava

From Wikimedia Commons (10) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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