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Wink's Panorama · Photo: Hustvedt · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Rollinsville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Its Register listing is the Bain Cabin. Below: maps from 1983 on.
The Rollinsville post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rollinsville’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Rollinsville.
The Rollinsville Post Office has been in operation since 1871. The community was named for John Q. A. Rollins, a prominent mining executive in Gilpin County in the 1860s and 1870s.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Rollinsville.
1983Denver West sheet · 1:100,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Rollinsville.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Rollinsville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Rollinsville post office opened in 1871, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Bain Cabin (listed 2018).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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), 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.
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