Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Dacusville

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Dacusville

Dacusville’s post office opened in 1828

Most of Dacusville was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1979. Below: maps from 1957 on.

1828first post office
0on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Quick answers

How Dacusville began

When was Dacusville founded?

1828

The Dacusville post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 399198 years
Founding year: the first Dacusville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Dacusville’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 Dacusville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1828: 198 years of Dacusville.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Dacusville’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Dacusville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
Timeline

Dacusville, 1828 to 1966

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1828Post officeThe Dacusville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1957On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1966Post officeThe Dacusville post office closes
The story

How Dacusville came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Dacusville.

Read it all →

Dacusville was named for Archibald Dacus. Dacus was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia, in 1769, to John and Mara Dacus. In the late seventeen hundreds, he moved with several of his family to Upper State South Carolina. He ran a trading post on the old Indian Road that ran from Virginia through North and South Carolina into Georgia territory, at what soon came to be called Dacusville, to trade with the Indians and passers-by, as well as local people. It is said that this was first called "The Trap". This was also a stagecoach stop. History relates there had been a post office in this vicinity since Revolutionary War days which had been operated from more than one location by various people. Archibald Dacus began to operate the post office from his trading post (store) and the place was called "Dacusville" after him.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
On the map

Dacusville on the map, 1957 to 1983

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

Dacusville on the 1957 USGS mapDacusville on the 1983 USGS map1957Easley sheet · 1:62,500

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Dacusville

Nobody well known was born in Dacusville itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

See all →
Charles Hard Townes20th-century American physicist · b. 1915
Jesse JacksonAmerican Baptist minister, activist, civil righ… · b. 1941
Kevin GarnettAmerican basketball player · b. 1976
Dorothy AllisonAmerican writer, poet, novelist, critic · b. 1949
Darline GrahamAmerican politician · b. 1964
E
Elijah Webb ChastainConfederate Army officer · b. 1813
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Dacusville had its own post office from 1828 to 1966.

Dacusville
1828–1966
18201920today
1cemetery inside Dacusville
Dacusville United Methodist Church

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

Questions about Dacusville’s history

What year was Dacusville founded?

The Dacusville post office opened in 1828, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

Town Square →
Start a conversation
Sources

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 Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.