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History · McDonough

McDonough’s post office opened in 1825, and 29% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Calvary Epsicopal Church.

1825first post office
1on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
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How McDonough began

When was McDonough founded?

1825

The McDonough post office opened in 1825, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, East McDonough (1837), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 797201 years
Founding year: the first McDonough post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about McDonough’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 McDonough are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1825: 201 years of McDonough.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how McDonough’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Timeline

McDonough, 1825 to 1910

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1825Post officeThe McDonough post office opens
  3. 1837Post officeThe East McDonough post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1910Post officeThe East McDonough post office closes
The story

How McDonough came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of McDonough.

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The land was settled around 1795 by Sylvanius Moore. The town of McDonough was founded in 1816 from part of the town of Preston.

Calvary Episcopal Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

McDonough, decade by decade

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On the National Register

1 historic place in McDonough

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1998
Calvary Epsicopal Church
Calvary Epsicopal Church
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Gothic Revival1
All 1 listings
Calvary Epsicopal ChurchBuilding · listed 1998

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

Famous people

Famous people close to McDonough

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

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Elmer Ambrose SperryAmerican mechanical engineer · b. 1860
Hubert Anson NewtonAmerican astronomer and scientist · b. 1830
Gail BordenAmerican inventor · b. 1801
Jesse D. BrightAmerican politician · b. 1812
Nathan Lewis MillerAmerican judge · b. 1868
C. Stuart GagerAmerican botanist · b. 1872
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

McDonough’s post office has been open since 1825. Another post office, East McDonough, opened and closed inside today’s town.

McDonough
1825–today
East McDonough
1837–1910
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
East McDonough
Gone or out of use
School Number 4school
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside McDonough
CorbinMooreUnion

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

PharsaliaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPrestonIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGermanIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townSmithville2 historic placesA

Questions about McDonough’s history

What year was McDonough founded?

The McDonough post office opened in 1825, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in McDonough?

One place: the Calvary Epsicopal Church (listed 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 (3), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.