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History · Eunola

Eunola’s post office opened in 1886, and 51% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1957 on and the census since 1900.

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0on the National Register
51%homes built before 1940
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How Eunola began

When was Eunola founded?

1886

The Eunola post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 132 in 19002020 census: 284140 years
Founding year: the first Eunola post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Eunola’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Eunola are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Eunola’s homes were built before 1938.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eunola’s history is told.

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The story

How Eunola came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Eunola.

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Eunola was initially appeared on the 1900 U.S. Census as an incorporated community. It did not reappear on the census rolls until 1940. It was disincorporate by judicial order in 2007 due to its not having held elections in half a century and lacking the minimum of 300 residents required to reincorporate under Alabama state law. It was reclassified as a census-designated place in 2010.

The town suffered extensive damage from an EF2 tornado on January 25, 2026.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Eunola, 1886 to 1957

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1886Post officeThe Eunola post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1906Post officeThe Eunola post office closes
  5. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Eunola on the map in 1957

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Eunola.

Eunola on the 1957 USGS map1957Geneva East sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Eunola.

People over time

Eunola, census by census

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Grew from 132 people in 1900 to 284 in 2020.

10 censuses, 1900–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Eunola’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Eunola

Nobody well known was born in Eunola itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Katie BrittUnited States Senator from Alabama since 2023 · b. 1982
Artis GilmoreAmerican basketball player · b. 1948
Wayne MixsonAmerican politician · b. 1922
Elizabeth B. AndrewsAmerican congresswoman for Alabama · b. 1911
Charles O. AndrewsAmerican politician · b. 1877
Jamey JohnsonAmerican country musician · b. 1975
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Eunola had its own post office from 1886 to 1906.

Eunola
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18801950today

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

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Questions about Eunola’s history

What year was Eunola founded?

The Eunola post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.