A history of Eagles Mere,
since 1877
Postcards, papers and photographs of Eagles Mere from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Eagles Mere was laid out in 1877 and incorporated in 1899. The Eagles Mere Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Eagles Mere's name literally means "the eagle's lake", the word mere being a poetic synonym of "lake".
Civil engineer Embley S. Chase came in 1886 to oversee its development as a resort town and laid the ground work. He participated in establishing its street plan, water sports carnival, ice toboggan slide, and trail system. He helped organize the borough, design its water and sewer works, electrify it, and plot the bottom of the lake. He helped design the narrow gauge railroad that once connected it to Sonestown.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Eagles Mere’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 viewThe Lakeside, 1890: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Eagles Mere
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Eagles Mere, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as The Lakeside (1890) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (11). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.