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Sweet Home’s post office opened in 1877, and 14% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1935 on and the census since 2000.

1877first post office
0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Sweet Home began

When was Sweet Home founded?

1877

The Sweet Home post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 1,070 in 20002020 census: 712149 years
Founding year: the first Sweet Home post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Sweet Home’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 Sweet Home are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Sweet Home came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Sweet Home.

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Most of the geographical history of Sweet Home and the surrounding areas was farms and fields. After bauxite mining between the 1940s through 1960s many blue holes were formed in the Sweet Home Area.

Sweet Home was the site of the Arkansas Confederate Soldiers' Home from 1890 to 1955, but the home was moved to the grounds of the Schools for the Deaf and Blind in Little Rock from 1955 to 1963. The Hanger Cotton Gin is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Sweet Home, 1877 to 1935

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1877Post officeThe Sweet Home post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1934Born hereHenry Dumas is born here
  5. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Sweet Home, decade by decade

Today1 recent
Highway 365 in2014Highway 365 in
On the map

Sweet Home on the map, 1935 to 1994

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

Sweet Home on the 1935 USGS mapSweet Home on the 1945 USGS mapSweet Home on the 1954 USGS mapSweet Home on the 1961 USGS mapSweet Home on the 1970 USGS mapSweet Home on the 1986 USGS mapSweet Home on the 1994 USGS map1935Sweet Home 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 Sweet Home.

People over time

Sweet Home, census by census

02004006008001,00020002020Peak: 1,070

Between 712 and 1,070 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Sweet Home’s post office has been open since 1877.

Gone or out of use
Burks-Nelson MinemineConfederate Soldiers HomebuildingDixie Number 1 MinemineDixie Number 3 MinemineDixie Number 3 MinemineHoekstra MinemineHoekstra-Dobbs-Illing MineminePine Grove ChurchchurchSherrill MinemineSweet Home MinemineWestminster Church MinemineWillie Thomas MinemineWright Minemine
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Sweet Home
Pine GroveZion Hill

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.

College Station1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Sweet Home’s history

What year was Sweet Home founded?

The Sweet Home post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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), Wikipedia, 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.