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History · Mount Hermon

Mount Hermon’s post office opened in 1908, and 41% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Mount Hermon began

When was Mount Hermon founded?

1908

The Mount Hermon post office opened in 1908, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 1,110118 years
Founding year: the first Mount Hermon post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Mount Hermon’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 Mount Hermon are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Mount Hermon’s homes were built before 1947.
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The story

How Mount Hermon came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mount Hermon.

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In 1841, California's first water-powered sawmill was built at the junction of Bean Creek and Zayante Creek by Peter Lassen, Isaac Graham, J. Majors, and F. Hoeger.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

Mount Hermon, decade by decade

Today1 recent
Bean Creek - Mount Hermon,CA - 20232023Bean Creek - Mount Hermon,CA - 2023
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Felton2 historic placesBZayanteIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Mount Hermon’s history

What year was Mount Hermon founded?

The Mount Hermon post office opened in 1908, 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, 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.