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History · Trimont

21% of Trimont’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Trimont’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 Trimont are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Trimont.Old housesHalf of Trimont’s homes were built before 1953.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Trimont’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.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Trimont’s post office has been open since 1959. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Triumph
1880–1968
Monterey
1899–1958
Trimont
1959–today
18801950today
Gone or out of use
Triumph Post Officepost office

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

The story

How Trimont came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Trimont.

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Trimont was once two separate villages, platted by competing railroads. The two towns were Triumph to the east, and Monterey to the west. In a 1959 referendum, the two towns voted to merge, using the first letters from each town's name to form, originally "Tri-Mont", and later simplified to "Trimont". As a result of the merger, Trimont has the unique characteristic of two separate Main Street business districts which are on the same street, yet located approximately a half-mile apart.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Trimont, 1880 to 1968

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1880Post officeThe Triumph post office opens
  3. 1899Post officeThe Monterey post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1958Post officeThe Monterey post office closes
  6. 1959Post officeThe Trimont post office opens
  7. 1968Post officeThe Triumph post office closes
By decade

Trimont, decade by decade

Today1 recent
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Famous people

Famous people close to Trimont

Nobody well known was born in Trimont itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Dale GardnerAmerican astronaut · b. 1948
Michael IzenAmerican Roman Catholic minister, Auxiliary Bis… · b. 1967
B
Bob GuntherAmerican politician · b. 1943
Brandon WilliamsonAmerican professional baseball player · b. 1998
D
Darrel PetersonAmerican politician · b. 1939
D
David M. JenningsAmerican politician · b. 1948
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Galena TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townFox Lake TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 (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.