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History · Maysville

Maysville’s post office opened in 1879, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Maysville was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1978. Its Register listing is the Maysville School. Below: 5 old photos and papers from 1882 on.

1879first post office
1on the National Register
5%homes built before 1940
5old photos & papers
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From Maysville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Maysville began

When was Maysville founded?

1879

The Maysville post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 173147 years
Founding year: the first Maysville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
The story so far

Maysville, in brief

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

Maysville is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place (CDP) located in and governed by Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The population of the Maysville CDP was 173 at the United States Census 2020. The Salida post office (Zip Code 81201) serves the area.

Its first post office opened in 1879. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 135 to 173 (+28%).

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

Timeline

Maysville, 1879 to 1893

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Maysville post office opens
  3. 1882In the archiveBird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 1882
  4. 1893Post officeThe Maysville post office closes
By decade

Maysville, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1880s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1880s3 items
Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 18821882Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 18…Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 18821882Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 18…CO Maysville 18821882CO Maysville 1882
1890s–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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Date unknown2 to date
Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 1882. - DPLA - b75269777898e664533ef375c3aedcc3Date?Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 18…Maysville, Colo - DPLA - 6b4622783001c65a438ad20d428569e2Date?Maysville, Colo - DPLA - 6b4622783001c65a438ad20d4285…
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Bird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 1882
Retake this viewBird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Chaffee County 1882, 1882

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Maysville’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Maysville

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
1999
Maysville School
Maysville School
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Rural Schoolhouse1
Maysville SchoolRural Schoolhouse

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Maysville

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

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L
Leslie WhiteAmerican anthropologist · b. 1900
R
Robert James EatonU.S. automobile businessman · b. 1940
E
Elaine AndersonAmerican paleontologist · b. 1936
Florence FairAmerican actress · b. 1907
C
Carol SpringerAmerican political activist · b. 1936
J
Jon KeyserAttorney and United States politician · b. 1981
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Maysville had its own post office from 1879 to 1893.

Maysville
1879–1893
18701950today
Gone or out of use
Copper King Minemine

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

Help out

Start Maysville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maysville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo2 archive items have no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewBird's eye view of Maysville, Colo. Cha…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Maysville’s history

What year was Maysville founded?

The Maysville post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Maysville?

One place: the Maysville School (listed 1999).

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 (5), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.