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History · Mountville

Mountville’s post office opened in 1832, and 25% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1953 on.

1832first post office
0on the National Register
25%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Mountville began

When was Mountville founded?

1832

The Mountville post office opened in 1832, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 100194 years
Founding year: the first Mountville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Mountville’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 Mountville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1832: 194 years of Mountville.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mountville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Timeline

Mountville, 1832 to 1953

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1832Post officeThe Mountville post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1906Born hereRed Smith is born here
  5. 1953On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Mountville, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mountville yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Mountville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 108 at the 2010 census, down from 130 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Greenville–Mauldin–Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Its first post office opened in 1832. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 108 to 100 (-7%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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.

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On the map

Mountville on the map, 1953 to 1970

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

Mountville on the 1953 USGS mapMountville on the 1960 USGS mapMountville on the 1970 USGS map1953Spartanburg sheet · 1:250,000

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

Questions about Mountville’s history

What year was Mountville founded?

The Mountville post office opened in 1832, 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 Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.