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History · New Hamilton

12% of New Hamilton’s homes were built before 1940

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12%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about New Hamilton’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 New Hamilton are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How New Hamilton came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of New Hamilton.

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Hamilton was the first county seat of Monroe County. In 1830, Monroe County was split to form Lowndes County to the south, and the county seat of Monroe County was moved north to Aberdeen.

New Hamilton was established in the late 1880s 2 miles (3 km) west of the original Hamilton with the arrival of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham Railroad and is now a larger community than "Old Hamilton".

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Famous people

Famous people close to New Hamilton

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

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Tennessee WilliamsAmerican playwright · b. 1911
Jerry RiceAmerican football player · b. 1962
Henry ArmstrongAmerican boxer · b. 1912
Larry SemonAmerican actor, director, producer, and screenw… · b. 1889
Andrew WoodAmerican musician and singer · b. 1966
Hayes JonesAmerican athletics competitor · b. 1938
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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 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.