A history of Andover,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Andover from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗David Lindsey, writing in 1955, observes that "New England Yankees, moving into Ohio's Western Reserve in 1798, brought with them the name Andover from a township in Tolland County, Connecticut, birthplace of many of the migrants. General Henry Champion, second largest shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company, first acquired Andover Township in the drawing for lands held at Hartford in 1798."
A post office named Sharon was established in 1815, and changed to Andover in 1826.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Andover’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 viewSherman House, 1912: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Andover
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Andover, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Andover is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Andover has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is John Henderson House in Andover, 2.3 miles away.
Andover 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 Andover, OH - Apr. 19, 1910 (1910) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (12). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.