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History · Millboro

Millboro’s post office opened in 1896, and 50% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Millboro School and the T. C. Walker School. Below: maps from 1946 on.

1896first post office
2on the National Register
50%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Millboro began

When was Millboro founded?

1896

The Millboro post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Cady's Tunnel (1857) and Millboro Depot (1874), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 236130 years
Founding year: the first Millboro post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Millboro’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 Millboro are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Millboro.Old housesHalf of Millboro’s homes were built before 1950.
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Start Millboro’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Millboro’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 and places now gone

Millboro’s post office has been open since 1896. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Cady's Tunnel
1857–1874
Millboro Depot
1874–1896
Millboro
1896–today
18501940today
Gone or out of use
Millboro High Schoolschool

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

The story so far

Millboro, in brief

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

Millboro is an unincorporated community and census designated place in Bath County, Virginia, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, Millboro had a population of 236. Douthat State Park Historic District and Millboro School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Its first post office opened in 1896.

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

Timeline

Millboro, 1857 to 1946

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Cady's Tunnel post office opens
  3. 1874Post officeThe Cady's Tunnel post office closes
  4. 1874Post officeThe Millboro Depot post office opens
  5. 1890Born hereBlandy Clarkson is born here
  6. 1896Post officeThe Millboro Depot post office closes
  7. 1896Post officeThe Millboro post office opens
  8. 20th century
  9. 1946On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

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

Millboro on the map, 1946 to 1986

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

Millboro on the 1946 USGS mapMillboro on the 1969 USGS mapMillboro on the 1978 USGS mapMillboro on the 1986 USGS map1946Millboro 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 Millboro.

On the National Register

2 historic places in Millboro

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

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
4
each building in a district counts
first listed
2004
Millboro School
Millboro School
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Colonial Revival1
Millboro SchoolColonial Revival
All 2 listings
T. C. Walker SchoolBuilding · listed 2020

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

Questions about Millboro’s history

What year was Millboro founded?

The Millboro post office opened in 1896, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Millboro?

Two places: the Millboro School (listed 2004) and the T. C. Walker School (2020).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, 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.