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History · Cluster Springs

Cluster Springs’ post office opened in 1906

Most of Cluster Springs was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1980. Below: maps from 1953 on.

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Quick answers

How Cluster Springs began

When was Cluster Springs founded?

1906

The Cluster Springs post office opened in 1906, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Black Walnut (1816), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 718120 years
Founding year: the first Cluster Springs post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Cluster Springs’ 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 Cluster Springs are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The story so far

Cluster Springs, in brief

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

Cluster Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Cluster Springs had a population of 718.

Its first post office opened in 1906. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 811 to 718 (-11%).

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

Timeline

Cluster Springs, 1816 to 1953

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1816Post officeThe Black Walnut post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1906Post officeThe Black Walnut post office closes
  5. 1906Post officeThe Cluster Springs post office opens
  6. 1953On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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

Cluster Springs on the map, 1953 to 1981

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

Cluster Springs on the 1953 USGS mapCluster Springs on the 1968 USGS mapCluster Springs on the 1981 USGS map1953South Boston 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 Cluster Springs.

Famous people

Famous people close to Cluster Springs

Nobody well known was born in Cluster Springs itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Ben E. KingAmerican singer · b. 1938
Nancy Astor, Viscountess AstorFirst female Member of Parliament to take her s… · b. 1879
Charlie RoseAmerican TV interviewer and journalist · b. 1942
Greg VanneyAmerican soccer player and coach · b. 1974
Jerome KerseyAmerican basketball player · b. 1962
Donna EdwardsAmerican politician · b. 1958
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Cluster Springs’s post office has been open since 1906. Another post office, Black Walnut, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Black Walnut
1816–1906
Cluster Springs
1906–today
18101920today
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Cluster Springs
Black WalnutSpring Hill

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

Questions about Cluster Springs’ history

What year was Cluster Springs founded?

The Cluster Springs post office opened in 1906, 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 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.