Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Eagleville was built recently: 10% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1967. Below: old-book passages.
The Eagleville post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Eagle (1853), 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.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Eagleville’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Eagleville.
Eagleville was originally called Eagle, and under the latter name was platted in 1851. A post office called Eagle was established in 1853, and the name was changed to Eagleville in 1881.
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Passages that mention Eagleville, cut from the printed page as they were published.
was knowTi as a Methodist Church. In 1877 this old log building was succeeded by a beautiful frame structure which at that time was one of the finest country church buildings in Harrison County. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Eagleville was organized prior to 1858 and services were held in a log schoolhouse which stood near the village of Eagleville. About 1859 the society purchased a lot in Eagleville and later erected a frame building. The Methodists organized a congregation at Akron in Clay Township at an early day and erected a building in 1873. Wesley
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Harry C. Miller was reared near Eagleville and attended the district school and also the public school at Eagleville, Missouri. He then attended business college at Maryville, Missouri, and upon completion of his course there, he came to Eagleville and engaged in the grocery business in 1913. He carries a complete line of fancy and staple groceries and has built up a large trade and his business has been a success from the start.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Eagleville’s post office has been open since 1881. Another post office, Eagle, 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).
The Eagleville post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
