Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the Freeman Barn. Below: 5 old photos and papers, maps from 1928 on, and the census since 1870.
The Wallagrass post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Michaud (1905), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
Peaked at 1,145 in 1930; 519 people lived here in 2020.
16 censuses, 1870–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wallagrass’ Wikipedia page.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Wallagrass yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Wallagrass is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 519 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1886. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 546 to 519 (-5%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
In the archiveFarm in the vicinity of Wallagrasse, Aroostook County, Me
In the archiveFarm in the vicinity of Wallagrasse, Aroostook County 1a33840v2 decades in the archive, from the 1930s to the 1940s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Wallagrass. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Wallagrass.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Wallagrass’ page.
Retake this view · +15The 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 Wallagrass itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Wallagrass had its own post office from 1886 to 1917. Another post office, Michaud, 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).
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Wallagrass post office opened in 1886, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Freeman Barn (listed 2017).
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 (2), the Library of Congress (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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.
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