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History · Walterhill

Walterhill’s post office opened in 1860, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Most of Walterhill was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1997. 2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 1 buildings. Below: maps from 1916 on.

1860first post office
2on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
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How Walterhill began

When was Walterhill founded?

1860

The Walterhill post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 407166 years
Founding year: the first Walterhill post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Walterhill’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 Walterhill 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 Walterhill’s history is told.

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The story so far

Walterhill, in brief

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

Walterhill, also known as Walter Hill, is a Town in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The population was 401 at the 2010 census. Walterhill is the site of the 34-acre (140,000 m2) Walterhill Floodplain State Natural Area, established to support a rare plant species found in the Stones River floodplain, the Stones River bladderpod (Paysonia stonensis). Walterhill is best known in the local area for being the site of Allied Waste Industries' Middle Point landfill.

Its first post office opened in 1860. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 401 in 2010, 407 in 2020.

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

Timeline

Walterhill, 1860 to 1967

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1860Post officeThe Walterhill post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1916On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  5. 1967Post officeThe Walterhill post office closes
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

Walterhill on the map, 1916 to 1975

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

Walterhill on the 1916 USGS mapWalterhill on the 1975 USGS map1916Murfreesboro 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 Walterhill.

On the National Register

2 historic places in Walterhill

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

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first listed
1990
Walter Hill Hydroelectric Station
Searcy-Matthews-Tarpley FarmWalter Hill Hydroelectric Station
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Walter Hill Hydroelectric StationDistrict · listed 1990

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, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Walterhill had its own post office from 1860 to 1967.

Walterhill
1860–1967
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BethelHillwood EstatesWalter Hill Estates
Gone or out of use
Walter Hill High Schoolschool
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Walterhill
JohnsWadeWalterhill

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Murfreesboro27 historic placesB+

Questions about Walterhill’s history

What year was Walterhill founded?

The Walterhill post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Walterhill?

Two places: the Searcy-Matthews-Tarpley Farm (listed 2011) and the Walter Hill Hydroelectric Station (1990).

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 (2), 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.