Wayne’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Wayne. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Settlers arrived near the town of Wayne in the early 1800s. Abraham Trout began operating a mill where the town now stands in 1828 at a waterfall on Twelve Pole Creek. Later on, he built a mill dam.
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Start Wayne’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wayne’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo3 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewVeterans Administration Medical C…: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Wayne
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Wayne, decade by decade
2000
unknown3 items
1 historic place in Wayne
1 place in Wayne 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 Veterans Administration Medical Center, Spring Valley Drive, Huntington, Cabell County, WV and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.