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History · Corinne

Corinne’s post office opened in 1869, and 11% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Corinne Methodist Episcopal Church. Below: 6 old photos and papers from 1868 on.

1869first post office
1on the National Register
11%homes built before 1940
6old photos & papers
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Corinne began

When was Corinne founded?

1869

The Corinne post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 809157 years
Founding year: the first Corinne post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
The story

How Corinne came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Corinne.

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For almost ten years from its founding on 25 March 1869, the town of Corinne prospered as the unofficial "Gentile Capital of Utah". As the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads approached their historic meeting place at Promontory Summit early in 1869, a group of former Union Army officers and some determined non-Mormon merchants from Salt Lake City decided to locate a Gentile town on the Union Pacific line, believing that the town could compete economically and politically with the Saints of Utah. They chose a location about six miles west of Brigham City on the west bank of the Bear River where the railroad crossed that stream. Named by one of the founders (General J. A. Williamson) for his fourteen-year-old daughter, Corinne was designed to be the freight-transfer point for the shipment of goods and supplies to the mining towns of western Montana along the Montana Trail.

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Timeline

Corinne, 1868 to 1882

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1868In the archiveWinkels in Corinne, Utah Street in Corinne (titel op object) Scenery of the Union Pacific…
  3. 1869Post officeThe Corinne post office opens
  4. 1882Born hereCharles Stewart Parker is born here
By decade

Corinne, decade by decade

One decade in the archive so far: the 1860s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1860s6 items
Winkels in Corinne, Utah Street in Corinne (titel op object) Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad (serietitel op objec…1868Winkels in Corinne, Utah Street in Corinne (titel op …Corinne. Staff of the Daily Reporter. Box Elder County, Utah1869Corinne. Staff of the Daily Reporter. Box Elder Count…Corinne. Staff of the Daily Reporter. Box Elder County, Utah1869Corinne. Staff of the Daily Reporter. Box Elder Count…Street view in Corinne, Utah, 18691869Street view in Corinne, Utah, 1869Street view in Corinne. Box Elder County, Utah1869Street view in Corinne. Box Elder County, UtahStreet view in Corinne. Box Elder County, Utah1869Street view in Corinne. Box Elder County, Utah
Then & now

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Winkels in Corinne, Utah Street in Corinne (titel op object) Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad (serietitel op objec…
Retake this viewWinkels in Corinne, Utah Street in Corinne (titel op object) Scenery of the Union Pacific Railroad (serietitel op objec…, 1868

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On the National Register

1 historic place in Corinne

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

place listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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first listed
1971
Corinne Methodist Episcopal Church
Corinne Methodist Episcopal Church
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Gothic1
Corinne Methodist Episcopal ChurchGothic

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

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Finish Corinne’s story

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Questions about Corinne’s history

What year was Corinne founded?

The Corinne post office opened in 1869, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Corinne?

One place: the Corinne Methodist Episcopal Church (listed 1971).

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Sources

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), the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.