History · Stokes

Stokes’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold just one old photo of Stokes. 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

Stokes Township is one of the seventeen townships of Logan County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,550.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 4,613 people in 2010, 4,550 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1972.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Stokes 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 below
1890Atlas of Logan County, OhioMap
1900–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Stokes’s history is told.

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By decade

Stokes, decade by decade

1900s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Stokes is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Stokes has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is McColly Covered Bridge in Bloomfield, 6.4 miles away.

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. McColly Covered Bridge’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Stokes?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Stokes’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

From Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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