Bowerston’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Bowerston. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The village of Bowerston was settled in the early 19th century by Barnhard Bower and his brother John. When they first moved to the area, two mills were already built on the south side of Conotton Creek. One mill was a sawmill, the other a gristmill, and in 1804, the Bower brothers began to rebuild the mills. In 1816, the settlement called Bower's Mills was laid out and later it was called Bowersville and finally Bowerston. Bowerston was platted by David Bower, Henry Hoover, and Nathaniel Bower on August 21, 1851, and was filed in court August 2, 1852. The village was incorporated April 2, 1883.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Bowerston’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bowerston’s history is told.
3 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewJames Couthren Borland (1877-1943…, c. 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Bowerston
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Bowerston, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Bowerston is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Bowerston has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Henry Law Farm Historic District in Monroe, 4.7 miles away.
Bowerston 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 James Couthren Borland (1877-1943) and Lizzie Alberta Miller (1875-1975) (c. 1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (8). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.