A history of Brookville,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Brookville from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The territory that today comprises the Village of Brookville was formed in two stages. When the village was incorporated in 1931, it consisted of a long, narrow tract of land that was centered along Cedar Swamp Road (NY 107). In the 1950s, the northern portion of the unincorporated area then known as Wheatley Hills was annexed and incorporated into the village, approximately doubling the village's area to its present 2,650 acres (1,070 ha).
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Brookville’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 viewAttendance Falls Off, Old Church …, 1911: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Brookville, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Attendance Falls Off, Old Church Is Doomed in the Brooklyn Eagle of Brooklyn, New York on May 14, 1911 (1911) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.