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History · McClure

McClure’s post office opened in 1880, and 27% of its homes were built before 1940

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How McClure began

When was McClure founded?

1880

The McClure post office opened in 1880, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 700146 years
Founding year: the first McClure post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about McClure’s past

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

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The story

How McClure came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of McClure.

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McClure was laid out in the late 1870s, and named after John McClure, an original owner of the town site.

In the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, McClure had the distinction of being the last place in Ohio with a manual telephone system. Since the installation of the first telephone system in the 1890s, by The Ohio Bell Telephone Co., residents used the same method to signal their town's operator; they turned a crank on their phone. The operator in most cases knew their voice or knew the person being called.

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By decade

McClure, decade by decade

Today4 recent
Map of Henry County Ohio Highlighting McClure Village2015Map of Henry County Ohio Highlighting McClure VillageMapPostcard of Crockett Store in McClure Ohio 19082010Postcard of Crockett Store in McClure Ohio 1908PostcardDamascus Twp Ohio Fire Dept2009Damascus Twp Ohio Fire DeptOHMap-doton-McClure2004OHMap-doton-McClure
Places that used to be

Old corners and places now gone

McClure’s post office has been open since 1880.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Willow Haven Trailer Court
Gone or out of use
Damascus Township High Schoolschool

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

Questions about McClure’s history

What year was McClure founded?

The McClure post office opened in 1880, 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 (4), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.