Amberg’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Amberg. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗There were several main companies in the Amberg area during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Amberg Granite Company was the first in the area and later, the Pike River Granite Company, which formed in large part due to poor working conditions at the Amberg Granite Company. The Amberg Granite Company was owned by William Amberg of Chicago and consisted of quarry operations in Amberg—the Argyle, Martindale, the Athelstane and Aberdeen. The Argyle and the Martindale quarries produced the fine-grained gray granite and the Aberdeen quarry produced the "Amberg red." The Athelstane produced a gray granite, but course grained, similar in texture to the Amberg red. Much of their granite was used in Chicago for curbing blocks and street paving. It was also used for buildings such as, the Minnesota State Capitol, and buildings in Chicago and Cincinnati. The Pike River company produced p…
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Start Amberg’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Amberg’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewMenominee River Bridge, Spanning …: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Amberg, decade by decade
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Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Menominee River Bridge, Spanning Menominee River at County Trunk Highway "K" and it appears here side by side.
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From Wikimedia Commons (3), the Library of Congress (1) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.