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Dooms’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Dooms. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
1 old photo or paper
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From Dooms’s archive · credits on each photo What stands out about Dooms’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Dooms’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dooms’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos 00s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. The story so far Dooms, in brief Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Dooms yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Dooms is a census-designated place (CDP) in Augusta County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Dooms had a population of 1,279. It is part of the Staunton–Waynesboro Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 1,327 to 1,279 (-4%).
Intro from Wikipedia . Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
By decade
Dooms, decade by decade Then & now Stand where they stood No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this view Blue Ridge Railroad, Blue Ridge Tunnel, U.S. Route 250 at Rockfish Gap, Afton, Nelson County, VA Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Dooms’s page.
Retake this view · +15 Stories next door
History across the town line Memory lane What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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What used to stand where something else is now in Dooms? → Who remembers Dooms in the 1950s? → A family story from old Dooms → Does anyone have photos of Dooms from the 1990s? →
From the Library of Congress (1). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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