Aberdeen’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Aberdeen. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Aberdeen was founded by James Edwards in 1795 and platted by Nathan Ellis in 1816. It was incorporated on July 5, 1816. It was part of Zane's Trace, a frontier road through the Northwest Territory completed in 1797. Aberdeen is connected to Maysville, Kentucky by the Simon Kenton Memorial Bridge and the William H. Harsha Bridge, a cable-stayed bridge completed in 2001.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Aberdeen’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Aberdeen’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMassie Beasley, Married 7228 Coup…, 1906: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Aberdeen, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Aberdeen is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Aberdeen has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Pogue House in Maysville, 0.8 miles away.
Aberdeen 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 Massie Beasley, Married 7228 Couples Between 1870 and 1892; The Gretna Green of America (1906) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (4), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.