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History · Yankee Hill

Half of Yankee Hill’s homes were built after 1990

Most of Yankee Hill was built recently: 9% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1990. Below: maps from 1947 on.

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9%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Yankee Hill’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 Yankee Hill are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Yankee Hill’s history is told.

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The story

How Yankee Hill came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Yankee Hill.

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Rich Gulch was settled in 1850. When Chilean and Spanish miners arrived in the 1850s, the place was renamed to Spanishtown. New Englanders settled later, applying the current name. A post office operated at Yankee Hill from 1858 to 1951. A modern-day post office is still in operation at the Pines Hardware Store, 11300A Miller Flat Rd. in Yankee Hill.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

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Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Yankee Hill on the map, 1947 to 1994

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

Yankee Hill on the 1947 USGS mapYankee Hill on the 1970 USGS mapYankee Hill on the 1994 USGS map1947Cherokee 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 Yankee Hill.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

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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 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.