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History · Millersville

Millersville’s post office opened in 1866, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Millersville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. Its Register listing is the Miller-Seabaugh House and Dr. Seabaugh Office Building. Below: 1 old photo or paper and maps from 1933 on.

1866first post office
1on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
1famous people
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From Millersville’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Millersville began

When was Millersville founded?

1866

The Millersville post office opened in 1866, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 240160 years
Founding year: the first Millersville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Millersville’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.
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Start Millersville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Millersville’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 viewMasonic Hall Building: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story so far

Millersville, in brief

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

Millersville is an unincorporated community in western Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States. It is located six miles (10 km) west of Jackson on Route 72. Millersville is part of the Cape Girardeau–Jackson, MO-IL Metropolitan Statistical Area. A post office called Millersville has been in operation since 1866.

Its first post office opened in 1866.

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

Timeline

Millersville, 1866 to 1933

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1866Post officeThe Millersville post office opens
  3. 1877Born hereJames F. Fulbright is born here
  4. 20th century
  5. 1933On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Millersville, decade by decade

Date unknown1 to date
Masonic Hall BuildingDate?Masonic Hall Building
On the map

Millersville on the map, 1933 to 1980

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

Millersville on the 1933 USGS mapMillersville on the 1980 USGS map1933Marble Hill 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 Millersville.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

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Masonic Hall Building
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Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Millersville’s page.

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Millersville

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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none yet
historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1996
Miller-Seabaugh House and Dr. Seabaugh Office B…
Miller-Seabaugh House and Dr. Seabaugh Office Building
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All 1 listings
Miller-Seabaugh House and Dr. Seabaugh Office BuildingBuilding · listed 1996

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Questions about Millersville’s history

What year was Millersville founded?

The Millersville post office opened in 1866, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Millersville?

One place: the Miller-Seabaugh House and Dr. Seabaugh Office Building (listed 1996).

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 the Library of Congress (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.