Cedar Grove’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Cedar Grove. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗A post office called Cedar Grove has been in operation since 1849. The village was named from groves of cedar near the town site. The town was originally along Lake Michigan until railway lines came through the present site of Cedar Grove.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Cedar Grove’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Cedar Grove’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewMain Street, 1910: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Cedar Grove
See all 1 →Cedar Grove, decade by decade
1990s
1 historic place in Cedar Grove
1 place in Cedar Grove is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Main Street (1910) 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.