A history of Findlay,
since 1887
Postcards, papers and photographs of Findlay from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗In the War of 1812, Colonel James Findlay of Cincinnati built a road and a stockade to transport and shelter troops in the Great Black Swamp region. This stockade was named Fort Findlay in his honor. At the conclusion of the war, the community of Findlay was born. The first town lots were laid out in 1821 by future Ohio Governor Joseph Vance and Elnathan Corry.
Before the Civil War, Findlay was a stop for slaves along the Underground Railroad.
In 1861, David Ross Locke moved to Findlay, where he served as editor for the Hancock Jeffersonian newspaper until he left in 1865. It was in the Hancock Jeffersonian that Locke penned the first of his Nasby letters.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Findlay’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewResidence Portion, South Main Str…, 1903: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Findlay, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Karg Gas Well Springfield Globe-Republic (1886) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15From Wikimedia Commons (5) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.