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History · Crenshaw

Crenshaw’s post office opened in 1902, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

Most of Crenshaw was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1967. Its Register listing is the Crenshaw House. Below: maps from 1948 on and the census since 1910.

1902first post office
1on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]) · CC BY 3.0
Quick answers

How Crenshaw began

When was Crenshaw founded?

1902

The Crenshaw post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 358 in 19102020 census: 638124 years
Founding year: the first Crenshaw post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Crenshaw’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 Crenshaw are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,382 in 1960; 638 people lived here in 2020.
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Start Crenshaw’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Crenshaw’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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People over time

Crenshaw, census by census

02004006008001,0001,2001,400192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,382

Peaked at 1,382 in 1960; 638 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Crenshaw’s Wikipedia page.

The story

How Crenshaw came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Crenshaw.

Read it all →

Crenshaw was located on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. By the early 1900s, it had a post office, several stores, churches, schools and a combined oil mill/cotton gin. The bank was founded in 1905.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Crenshaw, 1902 to 1960

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1902Post officeThe Crenshaw post office opens
  3. 1948On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1960CensusPopulation peaks at 1,382
By decade

Crenshaw, decade by decade

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On the map

Crenshaw on the map, 1948 to 1983

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

Crenshaw on the 1948 USGS mapCrenshaw on the 1950 USGS mapCrenshaw on the 1960 USGS mapCrenshaw on the 1983 USGS map1948Helena sheet · 1:250,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Crenshaw.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Crenshaw

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1984
Crenshaw House
Crenshaw House
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Queen Anne1
All 1 listings
Crenshaw HouseBuilding · listed 1984

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

Questions about Crenshaw’s history

What year was Crenshaw founded?

The Crenshaw post office opened in 1902, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Crenshaw?

One place: the Crenshaw House (listed 1984).

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 Wikimedia Commons (12), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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.