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History · Agricola

Agricola’s post office opened in 1909

Most of Agricola was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000. Below: maps from 1941 on.

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How Agricola began

When was Agricola founded?

1909

The Agricola post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 346117 years
Founding year: the first Agricola post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Agricola’s past

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

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The story so far

Agricola, in brief

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

Agricola is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in George County, Mississippi. Per the 2020 Census, the population was 346. Agricola is home to Agricola Elementary School (AES). Agricola was a station on the Pascagoula Northern Railroad. A post office operated under the name Agricola from 1909 to 1964.

Its first post office opened in 1909.

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

Timeline

Agricola, 1909 to 1964

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1909Post officeThe Agricola post office opens
  3. 1941On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1964Post officeThe Agricola post office closes
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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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On the map

Agricola on the map, 1941 to 1982

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

Agricola on the 1941 USGS mapAgricola on the 1982 USGS map1941Lucedale 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 Agricola.

Famous people

Famous people close to Agricola

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

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Tim CookAmerican business executive, former Apple execu… · b. 1960
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Lloyd J. Austin IIIUnited States 28th Secretary of Defense · b. 1953
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Hank AaronAmerican baseball player · b. 1934
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Laverne CoxAmerican actress and LGBT advocate · b. 1972
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Jimmy BuffettAmerican singer-songwriter · b. 1946
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Gregory BenfordScience fiction author and astrophysicist · b. 1941
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Agricola had its own post office from 1909 to 1964.

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19001960today
1cemetery inside Agricola
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Agricola’s history

What year was Agricola founded?

The Agricola post office opened in 1909, 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 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.