The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The village was founded in 1853 by the Reverend Andreas Iverson as a Moravian Church community. The steeples of the Ephraim Moravian Church and the Free Evangelical Lutheran Church-Bethania Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation are the landmarks of the village as seen from Eagle Harbor. The home of Reverend Iverson, as well as the Anderson Store, the Anderson Barn and History Center, the Pioneer Schoolhouse and the Goodletson log cabin are preserved by the Ephraim Historical Foundation and open to visitors as museums. The Ephraim Historical Foundation also offers walking tours of the village.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Ephraim’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ephraim’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewEastern marsh fern Thelypteris pa…, 1911: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Ephraim, decade by decade
1990s
7 historic places in Ephraim
7 places in Ephraim are 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
Listed 1985Ephraim Moravian Church
Listed 1985Ephraim Village Hall
Listed 1985Free Evangelical Lutheran Church-Bethania Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation
Listed 1985Hillside Hotel
Listed 1985Peter Peterson House
Listed 1985Gibraltar District School No. 2Listed 1985Anderson Dock Historic DistrictThen & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Eastern marsh fern Thelypteris palustris Vicinity of (1911) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (2) and the National Register (4). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.