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History · Keswick

Keswick’s post office opened in 1887, and 16% of its homes were built before 1940

3 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 3 buildings. Below: maps from 1935 on.

1887first post office
3on the National Register
16%homes built before 1940
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How Keswick began

When was Keswick founded?

1887

The Keswick post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Everettsville (1824) and Keswick Depot (1849), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 321139 years
Founding year: the first Keswick post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Keswick’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 Keswick are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Keswick, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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Start Keswick’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Keswick’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Keswick’s post office has been open since 1887. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Everettsville
1824–1849
Keswick Depot
1849–1887
Keswick
1887–today
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
EverettsvilleRoyal Acres
1cemetery inside Keswick
South Plains

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

The story so far

Keswick, in brief

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

Keswick is a census-designated place in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, about six miles (9.7 km) east of Charlottesville. As of the 2020 census, Keswick had a population of 321.

Its first post office opened in 1887.

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

Timeline

Keswick, 1824 to 1935

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1824Post officeThe Everettsville post office opens
  3. 1849Post officeThe Everettsville post office closes
  4. 1849Post officeThe Keswick Depot post office opens
  5. 1887Post officeThe Keswick Depot post office closes
  6. 1887Post officeThe Keswick post office opens
  7. 20th century
  8. 1935On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Keswick, decade by decade

Today5 recent
2019-06-25 14 12 22 View east along the westbound lanes of Interstate 64 from the overpass for Virginia State Route 744…20192019-06-25 14 12 22 View east along the westbound lan…2019-06-25 14 11 41 View east along the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 from the overpass for Virginia State Route 744…20192019-06-25 14 11 41 View east along the eastbound lan…2019-06-25 14 11 30 View west along the eastbound lanes of Interstate 64 from the overpass for Virginia State Route 744…20192019-06-25 14 11 30 View west along the eastbound lan…2019-06-25 14 10 51 View west along the westbound lanes of Interstate 64 from the overpass for Virginia State Route 744…20192019-06-25 14 10 51 View west along the westbound lan…2016-06-03 13 22 05 View west along Interstate 64 just west of Exit 129 in20162016-06-03 13 22 05 View west along Interstate 64 jus…
On the map

Keswick on the map, 1935 to 1972

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

Keswick on the 1935 USGS mapKeswick on the 1949 USGS mapKeswick on the 1964 USGS mapKeswick on the 1972 USGS map1935Charlottesville 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 Keswick.

On the National Register

3 historic places in Keswick

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

places listed
3
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
9
each building in a district counts
first listed
1999
East Belmont
La Fourche
BuildingsDistricts

Architectural styles listings

Federal1
Robert Sharp House1
Colonial1
Southern Colonial Limestone House1
Mid-19th Century1
Greek Revival1
East BelmontFederal
LimestoneRobert Sharp House
All 3 listings
La FourcheBuilding · listed 2022

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

Questions about Keswick’s history

What year was Keswick founded?

The Keswick post office opened in 1887, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Keswick?

Three places: the East Belmont (listed 1999), the Limestone (2006) and the La Fourche (2022).

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 Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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.