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Samuel P. Hoyt HouseSamuel P. Hoyt House · Photo: P. Kent Fairbanks · Public domain
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History · Hoytsville

Hoytsville’s post office opened in 1864, and 10% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Samuel P. Hoyt House, the Annie Birch House and the William and Elizabeth McMichael House. Its Register listings are the Samuel P. Hoyt House, the Annie Birch House and the William and Elizabeth McMichael House.

1864first post office
3on the National Register
10%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Hoytsville began

When was Hoytsville founded?

1864

The Hoytsville post office opened in 1864, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 702162 years
Founding year: the first Hoytsville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
On the National Register

3 historic places in Hoytsville

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

places listed
3
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1982
Samuel P. Hoyt House
Samuel P. Hoyt HouseAnnie Birch House, built 1875
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Georgian1
Vernacular1
Samuel P. Hoyt HouseGeorgian
Annie Birch HouseVernacular · Built 1875
All 3 listings
William and Elizabeth McMichael HouseBuilding · listed 1998

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 and burying grounds

Hoytsville had its own post office from 1864 to 1937.

Hoytsville
1864–1937
18601940today
1cemetery inside Hoytsville
Hoytsville

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.

Coalville5 historic placesB

Questions about Hoytsville’s history

What year was Hoytsville founded?

The Hoytsville post office opened in 1864, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Hoytsville?

Three places: the Samuel P. Hoyt House (listed 1982), the Annie Birch House (1984) and the William and Elizabeth McMichael House (1998).

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 (3), 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.