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History · Elloree

Elloree’s post office opened in 1879, and 22% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Trinity Lutheran Church.

1879first post office
1on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Elloree began

When was Elloree founded?

1879

The Elloree post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Poplar (1848), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 570147 years
Founding year: the first Elloree post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Elloree’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 Elloree are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Elloree’s homes were built before 1947.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Elloree’s history is told.

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The story

How Elloree came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Elloree.

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Trinity Lutheran Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Elloree, 1848 to 1888

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1848Post officeThe Poplar post office opens
  3. 1879Post officeThe Elloree post office opens
  4. 1888Post officeThe Poplar post office closes
By decade

Elloree, decade by decade

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Elloree

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2008
Trinity Lutheran Church
Trinity Lutheran Church
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Late Gothic Revival1
All 1 listings
Trinity Lutheran ChurchBuilding · listed 2008

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Elloree’s post office has been open since 1879. Another post office, Poplar, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Poplar
1848–1888
Elloree
1879–today
18401930today

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

Questions about Elloree’s history

What year was Elloree founded?

The Elloree post office opened in 1879, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Elloree?

One place: the Trinity Lutheran Church (listed 2008).

Memory lane

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

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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 Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.