History · Bainbridge

Bainbridge’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Bainbridge. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

1old images & papers
1historic places
1need a date
Driapsa Centennial Farm, Potts Hill European Community, 4511 Potts Hill Road · Library of Congress

The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Bainbridge is a village in Ross County, Ohio, United States, along Paint Creek. The population was 765 at the 2020 census. Bainbridge is the location of Pike Lake State Park.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 860 to 765 (-11%). Half of its homes were built before 1952.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Bainbridge 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.

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Start Bainbridge’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bainbridge’s history is told.

0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewDriapsa Centennial Farm, Potts Hi…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

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By decade

Bainbridge, decade by decade

Before
2000
No old photos in the archives yetWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

1 historic place in Bainbridge

1 place in Bainbridge is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

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In Ohioby listings · most towns there have none
1place listed1 building
0National Historic LandmarksNone here yet
1historic building protectedcounting each building in a district
1973first listedHarris, Dr. John, Dental School

Where they are

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Buildings

When they were listed

The Register began in 1966.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places (05/22/2026) · styles from the National Archives catalog · photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Driapsa Centennial Farm, Potts Hill European Community, 4511 Potts Hill Road and it appears here side by side.

🔁 Retake this view · +15

Stories next door

nearby towns’ history

From the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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