Shedd’s post office opened in 1915, and 37% of its homes were built before 1940
Its Register listings are the Boston Flour Mill, the Porter-Brasfield House and the United Presbyterian Church of Shedd.
How Shedd began
When was Shedd founded?
The Shedd post office opened in 1915, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Shedds (1873), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
3 historic places in Shedd
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Architectural styles listings
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Lost post offices
Shedd’s post office has been open since 1915. Another post office, Shedds, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Shedd’s history
What year was Shedd founded?
The Shedd post office opened in 1915, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What is on the National Register in Shedd?
Three places: the Boston Flour Mill (listed 1979), the Porter-Brasfield House (1980) and the United Presbyterian Church of Shedd (1998).
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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.