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History · Crescent Mills

Crescent Mills’ post office opened in 1870

Most of Crescent Mills was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2014.

1870first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
Quick answers

How Crescent Mills began

When was Crescent Mills founded?

1870

The Crescent Mills post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 206156 years
Founding year: the first Crescent Mills post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Crescent Mills’s post office has been open since 1870.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Moccasin
Gone or out of use
Cherokee Minemine
1cemetery inside Crescent Mills
Crescent Mills

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

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History across the town line

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Questions about Crescent Mills’ history

What year was Crescent Mills founded?

The Crescent Mills post office opened in 1870, 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 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.