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History · Milledgeville

Milledgeville’s post office opened in 1877, and 40% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Milledgeville began

When was Milledgeville founded?

1877

The Milledgeville post office opened in 1877, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, South Plymouth (1852), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 98149 years
Founding year: the first Milledgeville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Milledgeville’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 Milledgeville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Milledgeville’s homes were built before 1961.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Milledgeville’s history is told.

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The story

How Milledgeville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Milledgeville.

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Milledgeville was laid out in 1855. A mill was built on the town site in 1855. The name Milledgeville is an amalgamation of "mill on the edge of ville". A post office has been in operation at Milledgeville since 1877.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Milledgeville, 1852 to 1877

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1852Post officeThe South Plymouth post office opens
  3. 1863Born hereJames D. Post is born here
  4. 1877Post officeThe South Plymouth post office closes
  5. 1877Post officeThe Milledgeville post office opens
By decade

Milledgeville, decade by decade

Today5 recent
Map of Fayette County Ohio Highlighting Milledgeville Village2015Map of Fayette County Ohio Highlighting Milledgeville…MapMilledgevilleOH22013MilledgevilleOH2MilledgevilleOH12013MilledgevilleOH1Milledgeville, Ohio2012Milledgeville, OhioOHMap-doton-Milledgeville2004OHMap-doton-Milledgeville
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Milledgeville’s post office has been open since 1877. Another post office, South Plymouth, opened and closed inside today’s town.

South Plymouth
1852–1877
Milledgeville
1877–today
18501940today

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

Questions about Milledgeville’s history

What year was Milledgeville founded?

The Milledgeville post office opened in 1877, 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 (5), 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.