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History · Lemon Cove

Lemon Cove’s post office opened in 1898, and 19% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Pogue Hotel. Below: 2 old photos and papers from 1914 on.

1898first post office
1on the National Register
19%homes built before 1940
2old photos & papers
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Lemon Cove began

When was Lemon Cove founded?

1898

The Lemon Cove post office opened in 1898, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 298128 years
Founding year: the first Lemon Cove post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Lemon Cove’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 2 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lemon Cove’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story so far

Lemon Cove, in brief

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

Lemon Cove is a census-designated place (CDP) in Tulare County, California, United States. It is situated in the San Joaquin Valley near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The population was 298 at the 2020 census, down from 308 at the 2010 census.

Its first post office opened in 1898. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 308 to 298 (-3%).

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

Timeline

Lemon Cove, 1898 to 1928

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1898Post officeThe Lemoncove post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1910Born hereWillard Hershberger is born here
  5. 1914In the archiveLemon Cove, California
  6. 1928In the archiveLrmon Cove
By decade

Lemon Cove, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1910s to the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s–1920s2 items
Lemon Cove, California1914Lemon Cove, CaliforniaLrmon Cove1928Lrmon Cove
1930s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Today1 recent
Lemon Cove CA2010Lemon Cove CA
Then & now

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Lemon Cove, California
Retake this viewLemon Cove, California, 1914

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Lemon Cove

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1991
Pogue Hotel
Pogue Hotel
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Gothic1
Stick/Eastlake1
Swiss1
Pogue HotelGothic

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Old corners

Old hamlets and crossroads still carry their names on the map.

Hamlets and corners on the map
CitroGoodaleLemoncove

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

Questions about Lemon Cove’s history

What year was Lemon Cove founded?

The Lemon Cove post office opened in 1898, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Lemon Cove?

One place: the Pogue Hotel (listed 1991).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

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 (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.