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History · Rougemont

Rougemont’s post office opened in 1891

Most of Rougemont was built recently: 6% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1994. Below: maps from 1951 on.

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How Rougemont began

When was Rougemont founded?

1891

The Rougemont post office opened in 1891, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Red Mountain (1825) and Lyndover (1882), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 1,001135 years
Founding year: the first Rougemont post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Rougemont’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 Rougemont are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Rougemont, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Rougemont’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Rougemont’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Rougemont’s post office has been open since 1891. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Red Mountain
1825–1903
Lyndover
1882–1904
Rougemont
1891–today
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Quail RoostRed Mountain
Gone or out of use
Bartons MilllocaleBlaylocks Storelocale

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

The story so far

Rougemont, in brief

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

Rougemont is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Durham and Person counties, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Rougemont had a population of 1,001. An act to incorporate Rougemont as a town was introduced to the North Carolina General Assembly in 2011, resulting in a referendum where the incorporation was rejected by a margin of 10 votes.

Its first post office opened in 1891. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 978 to 1,001 (+2%).

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

Timeline

Rougemont, 1825 to 1951

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1825Post officeThe Red Mountain post office opens
  3. 1882Post officeThe Lyndover post office opens
  4. 1891Post officeThe Rougemont post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1903Post officeThe Red Mountain post office closes
  7. 1904Post officeThe Lyndover post office closes
  8. 1951On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Rougemont, decade by decade

Today18 recent
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On the map

Rougemont on the map, 1951 to 1987

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

Rougemont on the 1951 USGS mapRougemont on the 1974 USGS mapRougemont on the 1987 USGS map1951Durham North 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 Rougemont.

Famous people

Famous people close to Rougemont

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

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Fred BrooksAmerican computer scientist (1931–2022); author… · b. 1931
James Buchanan DukeAmerican businessman · b. 1856
Seth WescottAmerican snowboarder · b. 1976
Loudon Wainwright IIIAmerican singer-songwriter, humorist, and actor · b. 1946
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Taylor SheridanAmerican producer, screenwriter and director · b. 1970
Christopher BrowningAmerican historian of the Holocaust · b. 1944

Questions about Rougemont’s history

What year was Rougemont founded?

The Rougemont post office opened in 1891, 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 Wikimedia Commons (2), the Library of Congress (16), 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.