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Ferguson’s post office opened in 1947

Most of Ferguson was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1973.

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How Ferguson began

When was Ferguson founded?

1947

The Ferguson post office opened in 1947, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Luretha (1911), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

2020 census: 88679 years
Founding year: the first Ferguson post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Ferguson’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

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The story

How Ferguson came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Ferguson.

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The city was originally constructed just north of the Cincinnati Southern Railroad's engine repair shops as a residential community for its workers. It was incorporated by the state assembly in 1906. It was likely named for the Cincinnati attorney Edward A. Ferguson who helped found the railroad in 1869.

Because another community in Logan County already possessed a post office named Ferguson, the city long employed the name Luretha for mail delivery after the daughter of its first postmaster George Wynn. In 1950, the Logan Co. post office was closed and the Board on Geographic Names approved the use of Ferguson for the Pulaski community's mail.

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Timeline

Ferguson, 1911 to 1947

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1911Post officeThe Luretha post office opens
  3. 1947Post officeThe Luretha post office closes
  4. 1947Post officeThe Ferguson post office opens
By decade

Ferguson, decade by decade

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Famous people

Famous people close to Ferguson

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

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Tommy Lee WallaceAmerican film director · b. 1949
John Sherman CooperAmerican politician, jurist, and diplomat · b. 1901
Arthur LakeActor · b. 1905
Frank SelvyAmerican basketball player-coach · b. 1932
Edwin P. MorrowAmerican politician · b. 1877
Shelby Moore CullomAmerican politician · b. 1829
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Ferguson’s post office has been open since 1947. Another post office, Luretha, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Luretha
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Ferguson
1947–today
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Gone or out of use
Ferguson Railroad Stationlocale

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Somerset23 historic placesA−Burnside4 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Ferguson’s history

What year was Ferguson founded?

The Ferguson post office opened in 1947, 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 (6), Wikipedia, 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.