The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Adams was originally called South Friendship, but after a petition from residents who did not like the name, the Chicago and North Western Railway changed it to Adams due to its short nature.
The town became a division point in 1911 for the lines of the Chicago and North Western Railway The Milwaukee, Sparta, and Northwestern Railroad, a subsidiary of the Chicago and North Western Railway, began the "Air Line" or "Adams Cutoff" from Adams towards Sparta, Wisconsin in 1910.
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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 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Adams, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Adams is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Adams has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Adams County Courthouse in Friendship, 1.1 miles away.
Adams and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.