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Most of San Pierre was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1969. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1959 on, and the census since 2000.
The San Pierre post office opened in 1855, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how San Pierre’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of San Pierre.
The area now known as San Pierre was originally known as Culvertown, just north of the current town. However, in 1853, a post office was established in the area as the River Post Office. San Pierre proper was laid out in 1854, and the post office was re-established as San Pierre under postmaster Amas Green in 1855.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention San Pierre, cut from the printed page as they were published.
William J. Solt, M. D. Not only in his profession as a physician and surgeon, in which he takes rank with the best in Starke County, but also as a public-spirited citizen, Dr. William J. Solt has been one of the leading factors in the village of San Pierre and Railroad Township since he arrived there on June 28, 1900. Doctor Solt is a leader in everything of a community nature, possesses a strong personality, is a strong and vigorous and efficient worker in everything he undertakes, and in the past fifteen years has built up a large and valuable practice, both in and
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William Sweitzer grew up and was educated in Minnesota, completing his schooling at a college in Teutopolis, Illinois. In 1898 he came to San Pierre and began dealing in hay and supplying agricultural implements to the surrounding farming district. The hay industry has been an important factor of activities at the Village of San Pierre. It is the market point for the thousands of tons of wild hay raised on the marsh land in that section of the county, and there has been a growing demand for this commodity both for feeding and for packing purposes. I\Ir.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
One decade in the archive so far: the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of San Pierre. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of San Pierre.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on San Pierre’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 144 and 156 people in every census since 2000.
3 censuses, 2000–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on San Pierre’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in San Pierre itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The San Pierre post office opened in 1855, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
From Wikimedia Commons (6), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia) and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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