A history of Walhalla,
since 1849
Postcards, papers and photographs of Walhalla from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The German Colonization Society of Charleston was founded in 1848 to aid a wave of immigrants from the failures of the German revolutions of 1848-1849 and settle them in The Upstate; in the aftermath, numerous liberal merchants and farmers immigrated to the United States. Society trustees including General John A. Wagener, Claus Bullwinkel, John C. Henckel, Jacob Schroder, and Christopher F. Seeba bought 17,859 acres (72.27 km2) of land for $27,000 from Reverend Joseph Grisham of West Union in the Pickens District on December 24, 1849, to support German settlement in this area.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Walhalla’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 viewWalhalla - Main Street, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Walhalla, decade by decade
1990s
6 historic places in Walhalla
Walhalla has 6 listings on the National Register, and they protect 19 historic buildings, because Walhalla High School alone counts 8.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
the same place, years apart
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c. 1915 · CommonsToday · Wikidata
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.