Corning’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Corning. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Originally named Ferrara, the town was focused on farming along the Sunday Creek Valley. That would change when the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway completed the Moxahala tunnel in 1879. By 1880, Joseph Rodgers sold over 8,000 acres along Sunday Creek to the Ohio Central Coal Company. With New York capitalists investing heavily in the coal camp, the town was soon renamed Corning. A post office has been in operation at Corning since 1880.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Corning’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Corning’s history is told.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewCorning-mercer-hotel1908, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Corning
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Corning, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Corning is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Corning has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Adams Covered Bridge in Union, 3.3 miles away.
Corning 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 Corning-mercer-hotel1908 (1908) 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.