History · Clayville
A history of Clayville,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Clayville from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
5old images & papers
0recent photos
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Clayville was incorporated in 1887 and was named in honor of Henry Clay. Iron foundries and machine shops were an important activity here by the 1850s.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items below1910s5 items · Untitled photoCommons
1920–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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Finish Clayville’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewUntitled photo, 1919: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10By decade
Clayville, decade by decade
1910s5 items
1920s–
1990s
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.
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No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Untitled photo (1919) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.