A history of Windsor,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Windsor from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗This area along the Susquehanna had long been settled by varying cultures of indigenous peoples, including those of the historic Iroquois Confederacy, who used the river for transportation, water and fishing. Around 1712 remnants of the Tuscarora tribe settled in the northern part of the town. Also an Iroquoian-speaking people, they had migrated from North Carolina, which they left because of warfare with English colonists and other tribes. In 1722, the Tuscarora were accepted by the Iroquois as the Sixth Nation of their political confederacy.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Windsor’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 viewRes. of George Dusenbury, Windsor…, 1876: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Windsor
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Windsor, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Windsor is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Windsor has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Windsor Village Historic District in Windsor, 0.1 miles away.
Windsor and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Res. of George Dusenbury, Windsor, Broome Co., N.Y; Dusenbury's Store, Windsor, Broome Co., N.Y; Factory of Coburn Whip… (1876) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4) and the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.