Prescott’s post office opened in 1870, and 57% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listings are the Prescott School and the Prescott Rural High School.
How Prescott began
When was Prescott founded?
The Prescott post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Coal Centre (1870), opened inside today’s city and later closed.
2 historic places in Prescott
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.
Lost post offices
Prescott’s post office has been open since 1870. Another post office, Coal Centre, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Prescott’s history
What year was Prescott founded?
The Prescott post office opened in 1870, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What is on the National Register in Prescott?
Two places: the Prescott School (listed 1982) and the Prescott Rural High School (2008).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.