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History · Old Hundred

Old Hundred’s post office opened in 1874, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1949 on.

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How Old Hundred began

When was Old Hundred founded?

1874

The Old Hundred post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 218152 years
Founding year: the first Old Hundred post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Old Hundred’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 Old Hundred are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Old Hundred’s history is told.

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The story

How Old Hundred came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Old Hundred.

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Old Hundred was originally calculated to be the 100-mile-marker point along the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad, traveling west of Wilmington. The calculation was inaccurate and later corrected, but the name remained. The longest straight stretch of railroad track in the United States, spanning 78.86 miles (126.91 km), connects Old Hundred and Wilmington.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Old Hundred, 1874 to 1949

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe Old Hundred post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1932Post officeThe Old Hundred post office closes
  5. 1949On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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On the map

Old Hundred on the map, 1949 to 1982

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

Old Hundred on the 1949 USGS mapOld Hundred on the 1976 USGS mapOld Hundred on the 1982 USGS map1949Gibson sheet · 1:24,000

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Old Hundred

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

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John ColtraneAmerican jazz saxophonist · b. 1926
Dizzy GillespieAmerican jazz trumpeter · b. 1917
William S. McArthurUnited States Army Colonel and NASA astronaut · b. 1951
David ThorntonAmerican actor · b. 1953
Woody ShawAmerican musician · b. 1944
Marian Wright EdelmanAmerican activist for children's rights · b. 1939
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Old Hundred had its own post office from 1874 to 1932.

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

Questions about Old Hundred’s history

What year was Old Hundred founded?

The Old Hundred post office opened in 1874, 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 Wikipedia, 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.