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History · Rohrersville

Rohrersville’s post office opened in 1836, and 100% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Kefauver Place.

1836first post office
1on the National Register
100%homes built before 1940
Photo: Acroterion · CC BY-SA 4.0
Quick answers

How Rohrersville began

When was Rohrersville founded?

1836

The Rohrersville post office opened in 1836, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Crampton's Gap (1824), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 175190 years
Founding year: the first Rohrersville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Rohrersville

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
7
each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Kefauver Place
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Early Republic1
Federal1
All 1 listings

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Rohrersville’s post office has been open since 1836. Another post office, Crampton's Gap, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Crampton's Gap
1824–1836
Rohrersville
1836–today
18201920today
1cemetery inside Rohrersville
Rohersville

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.

Questions about Rohrersville’s history

What year was Rohrersville founded?

The Rohrersville post office opened in 1836, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Rohrersville?

One place: the Kefauver Place (listed 2005).

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 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.