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History · Dublin

Dublin’s post office opened in 1892, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1955 on and the census since 1920.

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How Dublin began

When was Dublin founded?

1892

The Dublin post office opened in 1892, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 99 in 19202020 census: 267134 years
Founding year: the first Dublin post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Dublin’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 Dublin are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 477 in 1980; 267 people lived here in 2020.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dublin’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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People over time

Dublin, census by census

0100200300400500192019401960198020002020Peak: 477

Peaked at 477 in 1980; 267 people lived here in 2020.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

The story so far

Dublin, in brief

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

Dublin is a town in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States. At the 2020 census, the town population was 267. Dublin is located on North Carolina Highway 87 and is known as the "Peanut Capital of North Carolina".

Its first post office opened in 1892. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 338 to 267 (-21%).

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

Timeline

Dublin, 1892 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1892Post officeThe Dublin post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1946Born hereWilliam Brisson is born here
  5. 1955On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1980CensusPopulation peaks at 477
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No old photos in the archives yet

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

Dublin on the map, 1955 to 1987

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

Dublin on the 1955 USGS mapDublin on the 1987 USGS map1955Elizabethtown 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 Dublin.

Questions about Dublin’s history

What year was Dublin founded?

The Dublin post office opened in 1892, 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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.