Wrightstown’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Wrightstown. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area now known as Wrightstown lies within the ancestral homeland of the Menominee people, who inhabited the Fox River Valley for over 10,000 years. In the Treaty of Washington (1831), the Menominee ceded approximately 2.5 million acres of land, including present-day Wrightstown, to the United States government in exchange for approximately $92,000 in provisions and annuities. This cession occurred during the era of President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Wrightstown’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wrightstown’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewDETAIL VIEW OF EAST ARCH - Wright…, 1968: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Wrightstown, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as DETAIL VIEW OF EAST ARCH - Wrightstown Bridge, Spanning East River, on Mallard Road (1968) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
From Wikimedia Commons (5) and the National Register (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.