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History · Granada

Granada’s post office opened in 1891, and 63% of its homes were built before 1940

1891first post office
0on the National Register
63%homes built before 1940
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How Granada began

When was Granada founded?

1891

The Granada post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Handy (1888), opened inside today’s city and later closed.

2020 census: 291135 years
Founding year: the first Granada post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Granada’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Granada are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Granada’s homes were built before 1938.
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The story

How Granada came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Granada.

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A post office called Granada has been in operation since 1891. The city was named after Granada, Spain.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Granada, 1888 to 1891

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1888Post officeThe Handy post office opens
  3. 1891Post officeThe Handy post office closes
  4. 1891Post officeThe Granada post office opens
By decade

Granada, decade by decade

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Granada’s post office has been open since 1891. Another post office, Handy, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Handy
1888–1891
Granada
1891–today
18801950today

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

Questions about Granada’s history

What year was Granada founded?

The Granada post office opened in 1891, 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 Wikimedia Commons (1), 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.