A history of Lakeview,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Lakeview from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusLakeview is a village in Logan County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,184 at the 2020 census. A branch of the Logan County District Library serves the Lakeview community. The town was heavily damaged by an EF3 tornado on March 14, 2024. The tornado killed three people and injured 27 others along its track.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,072 to 1,184 (+10%). Half of its homes were built before 1972.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lakeview 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 Lakeview’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewOrchard Island Hotel P. O, 1910: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Lakeview, decade by decade
1990s
Nothing in Lakeview is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Lakeview has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is McColly Covered Bridge in Bloomfield, 6 miles away.
Lakeview 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 Ham Horner's deer park, Lake View, Ohio (1908) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (7) and the Library of Congress (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.