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Pelion’s post office opened in 1900, and 29% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1944 on and the census since 1920.

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0on the National Register
29%homes built before 1940
2famous people
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How Pelion began

When was Pelion founded?

1900

The Pelion post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1912.

First census: 184 in 19202020 census: 631126 years
Founding year: the first Pelion post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1912.The full story ↓

What stands out about Pelion’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 Pelion are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pelion’s history is told.

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The story

How Pelion came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Pelion.

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A post office called Pelion has been in operation since 1900. The town was named after Mt Pelion in Greece.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Pelion, 1900 to 1990

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1900Post officeThe Pelion post office opens
  3. 1938Born herePaul Benjamin is born here
  4. 1944On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1990Born hereDalton Freeman is born here
By decade

Pelion, decade by decade

Today2 recent
Cotton - panoramio (1)2009Cotton - panoramio (1)SCMap-doton-Pelion2004SCMap-doton-Pelion
On the map

Pelion on the map, 1944 to 1982

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

Pelion on the 1944 USGS mapPelion on the 1982 USGS map1944Edmund 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 Pelion.

People over time

Pelion, census by census

0100200300400500600700192019401960198020002020Peak: 674

Between 184 and 674 people in every census since 1920.

11 censuses, 1920–2020.

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

Famous people

2 famous people were born in Pelion

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

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Paul BenjaminAmerican actor · b. 1938
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Dalton FreemanAmerican football player · b. 1990

Questions about Pelion’s history

What year was Pelion founded?

The Pelion post office opened in 1900, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1912.

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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 (2), 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.