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History · Tollette

Tollette’s post office opened in 1891

Most of Tollette was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: maps from 1951 on and the census since 1980.

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How Tollette began

When was Tollette founded?

1891

The Tollette post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 407 in 19802020 census: 185135 years
Founding year: the first Tollette post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Tollette’s past

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

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The story so far

Tollette, in brief

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

Tollette is a town in southern Howard County, Arkansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, Tollette had a population of 185. Tollette was established as an all-African American town by Sanford Tollette and his wife Caldonia Crofton Tollette in the 1800s. They built a church, a store, and a public school. Caldonia Tollette was postmistress of the United States Post Office in 1893. Their daughter, Mattye Tollette Bond began a teaching career at the age of fifteen. She married Ollie Seahorn Bond and resided in his hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee where they organized the first NAACP chapter in Haywood County in 1939. Sanford and Caldonia's granddaughter Mildred Bond Roxborough began worki…

Its first post office opened in 1891. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 240 to 185 (-23%).

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

Timeline

Tollette, 1891 to 1959

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1891Post officeThe Tollette post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1937Post officeThe Tollette post office closes
  5. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1959Born hereLuenell is born here
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On the map

Tollette on the map, 1951 to 1975

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

Tollette on the 1951 USGS mapTollette on the 1975 USGS map1951Mineral Springs South 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 Tollette.

People over time

Tollette, census by census

0100200300400198020002020Peak: 407

Between 185 and 407 people in every census since 1980.

5 censuses, 1980–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Tollette had its own post office from 1891 to 1937.

Tollette
1891–1937
18901960today
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Howard County High Schoolschool

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

Questions about Tollette’s history

What year was Tollette founded?

The Tollette post office opened in 1891, 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 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.