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History · Dellrose

Dellrose’s post office opened in 1882, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Wilson-Young House.

1882first post office
1on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0
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How Dellrose began

When was Dellrose founded?

1882

The Dellrose post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 73144 years
Founding year: the first Dellrose post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

1 historic place in Dellrose

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1973
Wilson-Young House
Buildings
All 1 listings
Wilson-Young HouseBuilding · listed 1973

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

Places that used to be

Old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Dellrose’s post office has been open since 1882.

Hamlets and corners on the map
New Dellrose
Gone or out of use
Suggs Churchchurch
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Dellrose
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Dellrose’s history

What year was Dellrose founded?

The Dellrose post office opened in 1882, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Dellrose?

One place: the Wilson-Young House (listed 1973).

Memory lane

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

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.