Adams’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Adams. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusAdams Township is one of the twelve townships of Champaign County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 1,036.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,110 to 1,036 (-7%). Half of its homes were built before 1938.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Adams yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Adams’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Adams’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMt. Adams from Covington, Ky, 1890: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Adams, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Adams is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Adams has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Monitor House in St. Paris, 7.2 miles away.
Adams 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 Mt. Adams from Covington, Ky (1890) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.