Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 3 old photos and papers from 1915 on and old-book passages.
The Livingston post office opened in 1880, 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 Livingston’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Livingston.
A post office called Livingston has been in operation since 1880. The village was named for Hugh Livingston, the original owner of the town site.
A meteorite fell to the Earth near and in the village on April 14, 2010, following a spectacular bolide and aerial explosion seen over much of the midwestern United States.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Livingston, cut from the printed page as they were published.
tant wilds of Western New York. He first settled, about the year 1800, in the town of Avon, then called Hartford, in what is now Livingston County, but was then a part of Ontario County. A little later he took up a tract of land now included in the town of York, Livingston County. He built a substantial log house, and, engaging in farming
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rVRKLEY MILLER, the scion of a pioneer family of Livingston County, is not only the owner of the homestead projK'rty on which his father and grandfather first settled, but is the proprietor and manager of a mill in the town of Mount Morris, where he and his brother, as equal partners, are carrying OH an extensive
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 1910s. 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 Livingston’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Livingston itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Livingston post office opened in 1880, 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, 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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