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History · Mount Cory

72% of Mount Cory’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
72%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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What stands out about Mount Cory’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 Mount Cory are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Mount Cory’s homes were built before 1938.
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The story

How Mount Cory came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mount Cory.

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Mount Cory was originally called Cory, and under the latter name was laid out in 1872 when the railroad was extended to that point. The village was named for D. J. Cory, proprietor of the town site. A post office has been in operation at Mount Cory since 1873.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Mount Cory, 1872 to 1875

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1872Born hereCharles F. Watkins is born here
  3. 1873Post officeThe Cory post office opens
  4. 1875Post officeThe Cory post office closes
  5. 1875Post officeThe Mount Cort post office opens
By decade

Mount Cory, decade by decade

Today5 recent
Mount Cory Zion UMC2015Mount Cory Zion UMCMain south of Washington2015Main south of WashingtonBethel Family Life Center2015Bethel Family Life CenterMap of Hancock County Ohio Highlighting Mount Cory Village2015Map of Hancock County Ohio Highlighting Mount Cory Vi…MapOHMap-doton-Mount Cory2004OHMap-doton-Mount Cory
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Another post office, Cory, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Cory
1873–1875
Mount Cort
1875–today
18701950today

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

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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.