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Eagle’s history is
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The public archives hold no old photos of Eagle. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Eagle Township is one of the seventeen townships of Hancock County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population was 1,084.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 1,084 people in 2010, 1,084 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1957.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Eagle 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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Eagle, 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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Today2 photos
Map of Hancock County Ohio Highlighting Eagle TownshipMapMap of Hancock County Ohio Highlighting Eagle Township2015University of Findlay StablesCommonsUniversity of Findlay Stables2007
National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Eagle is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Eagle has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Andrew Powell Homestead in Liberty, 4 miles away.

Eagle and the nearest listed places

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Andrew Powell HomesteadDr. Albert Linaweaver HouseFirst Hancock County CourthouseJasper G. Hull HouseBoss Manufacturing Company, TheElijah Pelton Jones House

Closest to Eagle

Andrew Powell HomesteadLiberty · Building4miDr. Albert Linaweaver HouseFindlay · Building6miFirst Hancock County CourthouseFindlay · Functional6.6miJasper G. Hull HouseFindlay · Victorian6.6miBoss Manufacturing Company, TheFindlay · Building6.7mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Andrew Powell Homestead’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Eagle?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Eagle’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.

Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Jenera📜 Rawson📜 Arlington📜 Jackson

From Wikimedia Commons (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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