Adams’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 4 old photos of Adams. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Adams Township was settled in 1796 and incorporated when it separated from Cranberry and Middlesex townships in 1854. It is named for President John Quincy Adams.
With the growing population in neighboring Cranberry Township, Adams has had a steady increase in the population of people over the years. After the 2010 census, it was discovered that Adams Township had the largest population increase of any township or borough in the county as well as one of the highest in Western Pennsylvania over the previous decade.
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Start Adams’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Adams’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo4 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewPennsylvania College, Pennsylvani…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Adams
See all 1 →Adams, decade by decade
2000
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Pennsylvania College, Pennsylvania Hall, Gettysburg and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2) and the Library of Congress (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.