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Village archive
The Memory of Myloi
Everything we know about the history of Myloi, Lerna and Kalamaki, in one place: events, people, places and pictures, each with its source.
The history of Myloi is the history of a place: a spring, a mill, a landing stage, a station, an olive grove. Almost everything happened somewhere between Pontinos hill and the sea, and almost everything is connected. The spring drove the mills, the mills drew the harbour, the harbour drew the railway. This archive shows those connections. Start with a period, a place, a person or a thread.
- 380events
- 126people
- 31places
- 8000+years of history
The river of time
Each bar shows how many events we know of: the three bars on the left cover the older eras, the rest one decade each. Click a bar to jump to that moment in the timeline.
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Greek and Latin spellings both work: Makriyannis, Μακρυγιάννης.
Threads through history
Follow one theme through the centuries.
- Water and millsThe springs of Lerna gave Myloi its mills and its name.61 events
- Harbour and pierBoats to Nafplio, a pier that never quite worked, and the heart of the village today.66 events
- RailwayFrom 1886 Myloi was a railway junction between the plain and the mountains.87 events
- Industry and tradeIron, gunpowder, ice and customs: the forgotten working village.45 events
- The Revolution of 1821Government seat, supply depot and battlefield of the young Greek state.28 events
- War and occupationApril 1941, the occupation and the years after.58 events
- EmigrationVillagers who left for America, Canada and Australia, and sometimes came back.15 events
- Running the villageMunicipalities, community presidents and mayors.56 events
- Ancient LernaThe Hydra, the prehistoric settlement and the excavations.32 events
- TravellersMyloi through the eyes of those who passed by.34 events
- Village lifePopulation, school, church, food and festivals.86 events
Told in full
The day the king came
6 July 1891: King George I lands on a pier decorated with myrtle and opens the railway from Myloi to Tripoli. Stowaways, a flask of wine and 34 degrees in the shade.
Myloi, 200 years ago: the battle broke out
How a few hundred defenders held the mills against Ibrahim Pasha on 13 June 1825.
1941, war in Greece: Myloi from above
Two aircraft over the bay in 1941: the flying boat that took a British general away from the pier, and the German reconnaissance plane that photographed the village eleven weeks later.
From Kalamaki to Chicago
Two families from Myloi and Kalamaki, two routes to America, and what the Ellis Island passenger lists tell us about them.
From spring to pump: how the water of Lerna made Myloi
From the first farmers and the Venetian watermills to the 1960 pumping station with Heracles on its wall: the story of the spring that gave Myloi its name.
The man who gave Lerna a face
John L. Caskey and the rediscovery of Lerna.
How to read this archive
Every fact shows how certain it is and where it comes from.
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
- Probable likely, but not fully proven
- Tradition myth, legend or oral memory
- Disputed sources disagree; both versions shown
Greece used the old (Julian) calendar until 1923. All dates here are in today's calendar; where a Greek source gives an old-style date, we show it too. The railway to Tripoli opened on 24 June 1891 old style, which is 6 July in our calendar.
Do you know more?
Do you recognise a face, have an old photo, or know a date we got wrong? Write to us. Every contribution is checked and recorded with the name of the person who gave it.
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