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History · Graniteville

Graniteville’s post office opened in 1867, and 37% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1955 on.

1867first post office
0on the National Register
37%homes built before 1940
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How Graniteville began

When was Graniteville founded?

1867

The Graniteville post office opened in 1867, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 1159 years
Founding year: the first Graniteville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Graniteville’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

How Graniteville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Graniteville.

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First settled in 1850, it was the original town in Eureka Township and an early gold mining center for Nevada County. As was popular at the time, the town was named Eureka, the state motto ("I have found it"), in honor of California's admission in September 1850, to the Union. Many other early Nevada County sites carried the Eureka name, including Eureka Hill, Eureka Mine, Eureka School District, Eureka Heights Residential District in Grass Valley, and Eureka House, an early tavern and inn built in 1850–1851.

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Timeline

Graniteville, 1867 to 1959

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1867Post officeThe Graniteville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1959Post officeThe Graniteville post office closes
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On the map

Graniteville on the map, 1955 to 2000

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

Graniteville on the 1955 USGS mapGraniteville on the 1982 USGS mapGraniteville on the 2000 USGS map1955Emigrant Gap sheet · 1:62,500

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Graniteville

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

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Joanna NewsomAmerican musician (b. 1982) · b. 1982
Christopher StevensAmerican diplomat, lawyer and ambassador to Lib… · b. 1960
Josiah RoyceAmerican philosopher · b. 1855
Jeremy SistoAmerican actor · b. 1974
Tully MarshallAmerican actor · b. 1864
Alela DianeAmerican singer-songwriter · b. 1983
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Graniteville had its own post office from 1867 to 1959.

Graniteville
1867–1959
18601940today
Gone or out of use
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Graniteville’s history

What year was Graniteville founded?

The Graniteville post office opened in 1867, 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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.