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History · Whitneyville

Whitneyville’s post office opened in 1845

Most of Whitneyville was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1989. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1921 on, and the census since 1850.

1845first post office
0on the National Register
5%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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From Whitneyville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Whitneyville began

When was Whitneyville founded?

1845

The Whitneyville post office opened in 1845, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 519 in 18502020 census: 202181 years
Founding year: the first Whitneyville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Whitneyville’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19214 editions of the USGS map, 1921 to 1977. Watch Whitneyville change.Deep rootsA post office since 1845: 181 years of Whitneyville.
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Start Whitneyville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Whitneyville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewPulp and Paper Mills - Maine: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
On the map

Whitneyville on the map, 1921 to 1977

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Whitneyville. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Whitneyville on the 1921 USGS mapWhitneyville on the 1948 USGS mapWhitneyville on the 1951 USGS mapWhitneyville on the 1977 USGS map1921Columbia Falls sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Whitneyville.

Timeline

Whitneyville, 1845 to 1921

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1845Born hereJames Roscoe Day is born here
  3. 1845Post officeThe Whitneyville post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1921On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Whitneyville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Whitneyville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Whitneyville is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The town was named after Colonel Joseph Whitney, a mill owner. The population was 202 at the 2020 census.

Its first post office opened in 1845. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 220 to 202 (-8%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Whitneyville, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Pulp and Paper Mills - MaineDate?Pulp and Paper Mills - Maine
Today2 recent
WhitneyvilleME Library2013WhitneyvilleME LibraryWhitneyvilleME CongregationalChurch2013WhitneyvilleME CongregationalChurch
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Pulp and Paper Mills - Maine
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Whitneyville’s page.

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People over time

Whitneyville, census by census

01002003004005006001850190019502000Peak: 579

Between 155 and 579 people in every census since 1850.

18 censuses, 1850–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Whitneyville’s Wikipedia page.

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

MarshfieldIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMachias11 historic placesARoque BluffsIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townNorthfieldIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townJonesboro2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Whitneyville’s history

What year was Whitneyville founded?

The Whitneyville post office opened in 1845, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 Wikimedia Commons (3), Wikidata (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.