Brewster’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Brewster. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗A post office called Brewster has been in operation since 1910.
Brewster is the location of the corporate headquarters and shops of the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway, both the historic company and the current regional railroad. The WLE began producing locomotives at its Brewster shops in 1910, and boasted one of the finest steam locomotive producing facilities in the country. Over the years, the WLE built and rolled boilers and erected fifty of their own steam engines, a feat never tried by many larger and more famous railroads. The Wheeling and Lake Erie Brewster Shops continue to perform contract repairs, upgrades and fabrication of locomotives and freight cars to this day.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Brewster’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brewster’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewWheeling and Lake Erie yards Brew…, 1910: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Brewster
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Brewster, decade by decade
1990s
1 historic place in Brewster
1 place in Brewster is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Wheeling and Lake Erie yards Brewster Ohio 1910 (1910) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.