A history of Hiram,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Hiram from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusHiram is a village in northern Portage County, Ohio, United States. It was formed from portions of Hiram Township in the Connecticut Western Reserve. The population was 996 at the 2020 census. Hiram is part of the Akron metropolitan area. It is the home of Hiram College, a small, private liberal arts college. The Hiram post office was established in 1816.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,406 to 996 (-29%). Half of its homes were built before 1943.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Hiram 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.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Hiram’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 viewTarring and Feathering the Prophe…, 1850: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Hiram, decade by decade
1990s
2 historic places in Hiram
2 places in Hiram are 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 Tarring and Feathering the Prophet by C.C.A. Christensen (1850) 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.