A history of Jacksonport,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Jacksonport from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusJacksonport is a town in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 878 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated communities of Jacksonport and West Jacksonport are located in the town. Part of Clark Lake is in the Town of Jacksonport.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 705 to 878 (+25%). Half of its homes were built before 1975.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Jacksonport yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Jacksonport’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
3 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewJacksonport Wisconsin postcard, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Jacksonport
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Jacksonport, decade by decade
1990s
2 historic places in Jacksonport
2 places in Jacksonport 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
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Addie Wade with logsJacksonport Wisconsin (1906) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.