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Pitkin’s post office opened in 1908

Most of Pitkin was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000.

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How Pitkin began

When was Pitkin founded?

1908

The Pitkin post office opened in 1908, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Sigler (1901), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 455118 years
Founding year: the first Pitkin post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Pitkin’s past

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How Pitkin came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Pitkin.

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In 1863, during the Civil War, Confederate soldiers built a military road from Niblett's Bluff to Alexandria that passed through the area. The Vernon Parish Tourism Commission placed an historical marker in 2009.

American sociologist, historian, and author James W. Loewen, in his 2005 book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism, identified Pitkin as having been a sundown town.

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Timeline

Pitkin, 1901 to 1908

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1901Post officeThe Sigler post office opens
  3. 1908Post officeThe Sigler post office closes
  4. 1908Post officeThe Pitkin post office opens
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Pitkin’s post office has been open since 1908. Another post office, Sigler, opened and closed inside today’s town.

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

Questions about Pitkin’s history

What year was Pitkin founded?

The Pitkin post office opened in 1908, 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 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.