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Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1914 on, and the census since 1850.
Fletcher dates its founding to 1830 (Wikipedia’s history). The census first counted it in 1850.
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 Fletcher’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Fletcher.
Fletcher was platted in 1830. The village was named after Samuel Fletcher, a local storekeeper. The post office that had been in operation at Fletcher since 1831 closed in 2010.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Fletcher. 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 Fletcher.
Passages that mention Fletcher, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Joshua A. Duer was bom in Bucks County, Penna., and Came to Warren County, Ohio, in 1830, one year later moving to Fletcher, Miami County, later to South Charleston, Ohio, after which he returned to Fletcher, and in 1837 bought the farm now owned by his son, John Duer.
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and Joseph Rollins was the first teacher in the second schoolhouse erected within the limits of the township. In 1874 the village of Fletcher was organized into a special school district and a well graded school has been taught there ever since.
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J. B. BEAMER, M. D., Fletcher. Of the medical profession of the village of Fletcher, who has established a reputation as a thorough-read man in the science of medicine, is Dr. Beamer, who is a native of Champaign Co., Ohio ; when but a boy of 4 years, his father (being also a physician) located in Fletcher, an was favorably known for nearly thirty years, under whom J. B. read ; in the Wn year of his age, he commenced the practice of his profession in Fletcher ; two years later, he entered the United States Army as a private volunteer of Co. L, 71st O. V. I ; soon after the organization of the company, he was appointed
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J. B. BEAMER, M. D., Fletcher. Of the medical profession of the village of Fletcher, who has established a reputation as a thorough-read man in the science of medicine, is Dr. Beamer, who is a native of Champaign Co., Ohio ; when but a boy of 4 years, his father (being also a physician) located in Fletcher, and was favorably known for nearly thirty years, under whom J. B. read ; in the 19th year of his age, he commenced the practice of his profession in Fletcher ; two years later, he entered the United States Army as a private volunteer of Co. Er 71st O. V. I ; soon after the organization of the company, he was appointed
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Born hereThomas Charles Munger is born here
In the archiveMain Street
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological SurveyOne decade in the archive so far: the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
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 Fletcher’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 246 and 569 people in every census since 1850.
17 censuses, 1850–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Fletcher’s Wikipedia page.
In 1830, according to Wikipedia’s history of the town. Fletcher’s post office opened in 1831, and the census of 1850 counted 246 people here.
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 (4), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System 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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