Starr’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Starr. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusStarr is a town in Anderson County, South Carolina. The population was 165 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 173 to 165 (-5%). Half of its homes were built before 1967.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Starr 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.
Start Starr’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Starr’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewSmith-McGee Bridge, Georgia Route…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Starr, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Starr is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Starr has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Dr. Samuel Marshall Orr House in Anderson, 8.7 miles away.
Starr 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 Smith-McGee Bridge, Georgia Route 181, Hartwell, Hart County, GA and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom the Library of Congress (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.