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History · Taylor

Taylor’s post office opened in 1880, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Pavillion Hotel and the Thomas and Mary Williams Homestead. Below: maps from 1952 on and the census since 1920.

1880first post office
2on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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How Taylor began

When was Taylor founded?

1880

The Taylor post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Munson (1879), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 251 in 19202020 census: 141146 years
Founding year: the first Taylor post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Taylor’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 Taylor are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 349 in 1940; 141 people lived here in 2020.Old housesHalf of Taylor’s homes were built before 1950.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Taylor’s history is told.

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People over time

Taylor, census by census

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Peaked at 349 in 1940; 141 people lived here in 2020.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

The story

How Taylor came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Taylor.

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Taylor was platted in 1883 and was named for Ed Taylor, a pioneer settler.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Taylor, 1879 to 1952

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1879Post officeThe Munson post office opens
  3. 1880Post officeThe Munson post office closes
  4. 1880Post officeThe Taylor post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 349
  7. 1952On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Taylor, decade by decade

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On the map

Taylor on the map, 1952 to 1994

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

Taylor on the 1952 USGS mapTaylor on the 1985 USGS mapTaylor on the 1994 USGS map1952Taylor 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 Taylor.

On the National Register

2 historic places in Taylor

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

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
8
each building in a district counts
first listed
1989
Pavillion Hotel
Pavillion Hotel
Buildings
Pavillion HotelBuilding
Thomas and Mary Williams HomesteadBuilding

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Taylor

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

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Jay Wright ForresterAmerican operations researcher · b. 1918
M
Milly BernardAmerican politician · b. 1920
L
Leo J. PowersUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient · b. 1909
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Taylor’s post office has been open since 1880. Another post office, Munson, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Munson
1879–1880
Taylor
1880–today
18701950today

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

Questions about Taylor’s history

What year was Taylor founded?

The Taylor post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Taylor?

Two places: the Pavillion Hotel (listed 1989) and the Thomas and Mary Williams Homestead (1998).

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 (9), the National Register of Historic Places (2), 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.