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History · Stonewall

Stonewall’s post office opened in 1874

Most of Stonewall was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1971. Below: maps from 1901 on and the census since 1910.

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How Stonewall began

When was Stonewall founded?

1874

The Stonewall post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 494 in 19102020 census: 414152 years
Founding year: the first Stonewall post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Stonewall’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 Stonewall are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19014 editions of the USGS map, 1901 to 1990. Watch Stonewall change.Boom and bustPeaked at 761 in 1940; 414 people lived here in 2020.Mapped building by building3 fire insurance maps, 1904 to 1918, drew every building in Stonewall.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Stonewall’s history is told.

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On the map

Stonewall on the map, 1901 to 1990

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

Stonewall on the 1901 USGS mapStonewall on the 1957 USGS mapStonewall on the 1979 USGS mapStonewall on the 1990 USGS map1901Stonewall sheet · 1:125,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Stonewall.

People over time

Stonewall, census by census

0200400600800192019401960198020002020Peak: 761

Peaked at 761 in 1940; 414 people lived here in 2020.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

The story

How Stonewall came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Stonewall.

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Before Stonewall was a town, it was primarily the Chickasaw tribes land. Robert L. Cochran was a Georgia man who settled Stonewall first by opening up a trading post on the original site of Stonewall. The site was declared Pontotoc, which would become the county name in the present. Along with the settling of Cochran's store a post office opened there in 1858. The settlement was then named Stonewall in honor of confederate war general Stonewall Jackson. By the late 1800s, Stonewall had increased in population and had multiple businesses open such as a cotton gin, good stores, a hotel, and stagecoach station.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Stonewall, 1874 to 1940

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1874Post officeThe Stonewall post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1901On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1940CensusPopulation peaks at 761
By decade

Stonewall, decade by decade

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Every building

Stonewall, building by building, 1904–1918

Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a year, then a sheet.

Stonewall fire insurance map, 1904, sheet 11904Sheet 1 of 1
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Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.

Questions about Stonewall’s history

What year was Stonewall founded?

The Stonewall post office opened in 1874, 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 (1), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.