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History · Damon

Damon’s post office opened in 1895

Most of Damon was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2001.

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How Damon began

When was Damon founded?

1895

The Damon post office opened in 1895, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Damon's Mound (1888), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 436131 years
Founding year: the first Damon post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Damon’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 Damon are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story

How Damon came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Damon.

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The Karankawa people lived on Damon Mound before the arrival of Europeans. Arrowheads, burial grounds, broken pottery, and stone tools found in the area are evidence of their habitation. In ancient times, the mound's sour earth was regarded by the local native peoples as having medicinal properties. This feature was caused by the presence of sulphur and other minerals near the surface.

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Timeline

Damon, 1888 to 1924

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1888Post officeThe Damon's Mound post office opens
  3. 1891Post officeThe Damon's Mound post office closes
  4. 1895Post officeThe Damon post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1924Born hereBuddy Tinsley is born here
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Damon, decade by decade

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Damon’s post office has been open since 1895. Another post office, Damon's Mound, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Damon's Mound
1888–1891
Damon
1895–today
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Damon’s history

What year was Damon founded?

The Damon post office opened in 1895, 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 (6), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.