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History · Winfall

Winfall’s post office opened in 1873, and 10% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 72 buildings. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1906 on, and the census since 1900.

1873first post office
1on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
1old photo or paper
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From Winfall’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Winfall began

When was Winfall founded?

1873

The Winfall post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1887.

First census: 222 in 19002020 census: 555153 years
Founding year: the first Winfall post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1887.The full story ↓

What stands out about Winfall’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 1 old photo is in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.Shrank, then grewLost two-thirds of its people between 1930 and 1940, then grew 3-fold.A historic districtThe Winfall Historic District takes in 72 historic buildings.On the map since 19063 editions of the USGS map, 1906 to 1982. Watch Winfall change.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Winfall’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Winfall’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.
Date a photo1 archive item has no date. Guess the decade.+2Retake an old viewExum Newby House, NC Route 37: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
People over time

Winfall, census by census

01002003004005006007001900192019401960198020002020426 in 1930Low: 160

Lost two-thirds of its people between 1930 and 1940, then grew 3-fold.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

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

On the National Register

1 listing protects 72 historic buildings

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

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National Historic Landmarks
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each building in a district counts
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Winfall Historic District
Winfall Historic District
Districts

Architectural styles listings

Queen Anne1
Bungalow1
Colonial Revival1
Ranch Style1
All 1 listings
Winfall Historic DistrictDistrict · listed 2003

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

The story

How Winfall came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Winfall.

Read it all →

The Winfall Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Winfall, 1873 to 1980

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1873Post officeThe Winfall post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1906On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1980CensusPopulation peaks at 634
By decade

Winfall, decade by decade

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Exum Newby House, NC Route 37Date?Exum Newby House, NC Route 37
Today3 recent
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On the map

Winfall on the map, 1906 to 1982

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

Winfall on the 1906 USGS mapWinfall on the 1940 USGS mapWinfall on the 1982 USGS map1906Hertford 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 Winfall.

Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

Exum Newby House, NC Route 37
Retake this viewExum Newby House, NC Route 37

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Winfall’s page.

Retake this view · +15
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Hertford6 historic placesA+

Questions about Winfall’s history

What year was Winfall founded?

The Winfall post office opened in 1873, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1887.

What is on the National Register in Winfall?

One place: the Winfall Historic District (listed 2003).

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 (3), the Library of Congress (1), 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.