The story
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From Wikipedia’s history of Danvers.
A post office called Danvers has been in operation since 1892. Danvers had a depot on the railroad.
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History · Danvers
Danvers’ post office opened in 1892, and 41% of its homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1968 on and the census since 1900.
1892first post office
0on the National Register
41%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
How Danvers began
When was Danvers founded?
1892
The Danvers post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name.
First census: 112 in 19002020 census: 103134 years
Founding year: the first Danvers post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
What stands out about Danvers’ past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Danvers’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Danvers’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.People over time
Danvers, census by census
Peaked at 253 in 1920; 103 people lived here in 2020.
13 censuses, 1900–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Danvers’ Wikipedia page.
Timeline
Danvers, 1892 to 1968
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1892Post officeThe Danvers post office opens
- 20th century
- 1920CensusPopulation peaks at 253
- 1968
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Danvers on the map, 1968 to 1986
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Danvers. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1968Danvers sheet · 1:24,000U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Danvers.
Famous people
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Nobody well known was born in Danvers itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Danvers’ history
What year was Danvers founded?
The Danvers post office opened in 1892, 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 Wikipedia, 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.