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History · Hemingway

Hemingway’s post office opened in 1911

Most of Hemingway was built recently: 5% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1965. Below: maps from 1986 on and the census since 1920.

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Quick answers

How Hemingway began

When was Hemingway founded?

1911

The Hemingway post office opened in 1911, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Lambert (1885), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 371 in 19202020 census: 504115 years
Founding year: the first Hemingway post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Hemingway’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 Hemingway are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Boom and bustPeaked at 1,026 in 1970; 504 people lived here in 2020.
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Start Hemingway’s collection

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

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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People over time

Hemingway, census by census

02004006008001,000192019401960198020002020Peak: 1,026

Peaked at 1,026 in 1970; 504 people lived here in 2020.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

The story

How Hemingway came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Hemingway.

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Hemingway was created from a crossroads community named Lamberts in 1911 by Dr. W. C. Hemingway, in an effort to secure a depot for the proposed Seaboard Coast Line Railroad, which was to run from Mullins to Andrews. Land owned by Dr. Hemingway was surveyed and the lots auctioned off. Subsequently, the railroad established a Hemingway depot, and the post office name was changed to Hemingway.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Hemingway, 1885 to 1986

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1885Post officeThe Lambert post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1911Post officeThe Lambert post office closes
  5. 1911Post officeThe Hemingway post office opens
  6. 1946Born hereRobin Tallon is born here
  7. 1970CensusPopulation peaks at 1,026
  8. 1986Born hereJosh Dollard is born here
  9. 1986On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Hemingway, decade by decade

Today3 recent
Bear print 56612017Bear print 5661HemingwayWaterTower2008HemingwayWaterTowerSCMap-doton-Hemingway2004SCMap-doton-Hemingway
On the map

Hemingway on the map in 1986

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Hemingway.

Hemingway on the 1986 USGS map1986Kingstree sheet · 1:100,000

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Hemingway

Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.

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Robin TallonAmerican politician · b. 1946
Josh DollardAmerican basketball player · b. 1986
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Hemingway’s post office has been open since 1911. Another post office, Lambert, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Lambert
1885–1911
Hemingway
1911–today
18801950today

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

Questions about Hemingway’s history

What year was Hemingway founded?

The Hemingway post office opened in 1911, 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 (3), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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.