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History · New Site

New Site’s post office opened in 1857

Most of New Site was built recently: 0.3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1979. Below: maps from 1891 on and the census since 1880.

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How New Site began

When was New Site founded?

1857

The New Site post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 72 in 18802020 census: 773169 years
Founding year: the first New Site post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about New Site’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 New Site are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 18913 editions of the USGS map, 1891 to 1978. Watch New Site change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how New Site’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

New Site on the map, 1891 to 1978

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of New Site. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

New Site on the 1891 USGS mapNew Site on the 1969 USGS mapNew Site on the 1978 USGS map1891Ashland sheet · 1:125,000

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

The story so far

New Site, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of New Site yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

New Site is a town in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated in 1965. As of the 2020 census, New Site had a population of 773. It is part of the Alexander City Micropolitan Statistical Area. New Site is the closest municipality to the Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, which commemorates the Battle of Horseshoe Bend that hastened the end of the Creek War.

Its first post office opened in 1857. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 773 in 2010, 773 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

New Site, 1857 to 1907

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe New Site post office opens
  3. 1891On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1894Born hereAlbert Patterson is born here
  5. 20th century
  6. 1907Post officeThe New Site post office closes
By decade

New Site, decade by decade

Today1 recent
New Site Alabama2011New Site Alabama
People over time

New Site, census by census

020040060080018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 848

Between 72 and 848 people in every census since 1880.

7 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

New Site had its own post office from 1857 to 1907.

New Site
1857–1907
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BethlehamHarmonyPerryville
4cemeteries and burying grounds inside New Site
BethlehemHarmonyHutchinsonMcClendon

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

Questions about New Site’s history

What year was New Site founded?

The New Site post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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 Wikimedia Commons (1), 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) 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.