Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Most of Fort Loudon was built recently: 4% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1992. Below: old-book passages.
The Fort Loudon post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Fort Loudon’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of Fort Loudon.
The community is named after the colonial Fort Loudoun, built in 1756 during the French and Indian War. A replica of the fort, built in 1993, stands at the corner of US 30 and Brooklyn Road North, at the southeastern corner of the CDP.
A post office called Loudon was established in 1814, and the name was changed to Fort Loudon in 1883.
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Passages that mention Fort Loudon, cut from the printed page as they were published.
Capt. Samuel Patton, died June 9, 1821, aged eighty. He settled on what was the site of Fort Loudon; Elizabeth, consort, died July 13, 1826, aged eighty. Jacob Lehmaster, born July 8, 1775, died June 25, 1861; Elizabeth, consort, died July 8, 1857, aged seventy-one. David Lehmaster, born May 19, 1821, died March 26, 1876.
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Capt. Samuel Patton, died June 9, 1821, aged eighty. He settled on what was the site of Fort Loudon; Elizabeth, consort, died July 13, 1820, aged eighty. Jacob Lehmaster, born July 8, 1775, died June 25, 1861; Elizabeth, con.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Fort Loudon itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
The Fort Loudon post office opened in 1883, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 (3), Wikipedia and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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