For longtime residents, a walk down New London's Main Street evokes all sorts of memories. Our Main Street Wiki project invites volunteers and community members to collaborate on the collection and publication of those stories using Internet-based tools. This is a pilot program that might ultimately expand to cover the entire town of New London.
Archives volunteers are now seeding the database with information about many of the buildings along Main Street, and then we'll be opening up those entries for community members to edit with their own images, house histories, and recollections. The end result is a highly interactive wiki that will become the repository for much of our local history. We hope you'll join us — either as a project volunteer or as a community contributor.
PROJECT MILESTONES:
June 2010 - established a wiki at NLarchives.wikispaces.com in order to test the concept, recruit volunteers, and learn how this information will be collected, presented, and used.
November 2010 - photographed and recorded street numbers for all structures along Main Street.
March 2011 - created individual wiki pages for the majority of properties, complete with images taken in November.
April 2011 - added historical building information for properties south of Pleasant Street in preparation for NL Historical Society's walking tour.