A history of Moravia,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Moravia from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Moravia was part of the Central New York Military Tract. The first settlers arrived around 1789, while the natives still lived in the area. The town was formed in 1833 from the town of Sempronius. Moravia was long known as the last bastion of the Whigs, the defunct political party of native ex-U.S. president Millard Fillmore. A few Whigs survived as late as the early 1980s according to voter registration records.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Moravia’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 viewDr. Cooper Curtice and Fred Kilbo…, 1880: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Moravia
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Moravia, decade by decade
1930s
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Dr. Cooper Curtice and Fred Kilborne (Moravia, N.Y.) (1880) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3) and the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.