History · Hicksville
Hicksville in old photos and postcardsPostcards, papers and photographs of Hicksville from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
6 old photos & papers
1 historic places
6 famous people
From Hicksville’s archive · credits on each photo
What stands out about Hicksville’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · The story How Hicksville came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Hicksville.
Read it all → Led by Henry W. Hicks, the Hicks Land Company platted the community in 1835 and 1836. A post office has been in operation at Hicksville since 1838. Hicksville was incorporated as a village in 1871. Hicksville made its debut in American literature in 1885 when Mark Twain mentioned the town in chapter 33 of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Tom Sawyer claims to be a stranger from Hicksville, Ohio.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
At a glance
Half its homes built before 1961
Oldest landmark with a date St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 1873
Oldest item in the archive 1908
People in 2020 3,431 The houses today → By decade Hicksville, decade by decade 2 decades in the archive, from the 1900s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
1900s–1910s 6 items
1908 Hicksville High School Building, Hicksville, OPostcard 1908 Hicksville High School Building, Hicksville, OPostcard 1910 High St. Hicksville, O., From E.W. Crook's ResidencePostcard 1910 High St. Hicksville, O., From E.W. Crook's ResidencePostcard 1913 Hicksville, OhioPostcard 1913 Hicksville, OhioPostcard 1920s–1990s nothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these years Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view Hicksville High School Building, Hicksville, O, 1908 Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Hicksville’s page.
Retake this view · +15 On the National Register 1 historic place in Hicksville The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1976
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
Architectural styles listings Gothic Revival 1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people 6 famous people were born in Hicksville Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
See all → Help out Finish Hicksville’s story Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. Memory lane What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Hicksville? → Who remembers Hicksville in the 1950s? → A family story from old Hicksville → Does anyone have photos of Hicksville from the 1990s? →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia and Wikidata for famous people. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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