A history of Amherst,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Amherst from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The original village, which eventually became known as Amherst, was established/founded by pioneer settler Jacob Shupe (who came to this area in 1811; however, what would become the specific “downtown” area was settled by Josiah Harris in 1818), although the original tiny village was first known only as "Amherst Corners" in the early-1830s. When the village-plat was officially recorded in 1836, it was simply named the "town plat of Amherst", but became "Amherstville" circa-1839, and was later changed to "North Amherst", until finally again simply 'Amherst' in 1909. (The original 1820s postal-name of the village's first post-office was "Plato"; and the village's post-office retained that postal-name into the 1840s, even after the local-government name of the village officially became 'Amherstville' by 1840.)
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Amherst’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 viewRedington Block Amherst, O, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Amherst
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Amherst, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as US-OH(1891) p671 NORTH AMHERST, QUARRY 8 OF THE CKEVELAND STONE COMPANY (1891) and it appears here side by side.
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From Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.