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History · Remington

Remington’s post office opened in 1890, and 20% of its homes were built before 1940

1 place in town is on the National Register, among them a historic district with 131 buildings. Below: 8 old photos and papers, maps from 1894 on, and the census since 1900.

1890first post office
1on the National Register
20%homes built before 1940
8old photos & papers
1famous people
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From Remington’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Remington began

When was Remington founded?

1890

The Remington post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name. Three smaller post offices, Millview (1839), Bowenville (1860) and Rappahannock Station (1876), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 198 in 19002020 census: 626136 years
Founding year: the first Remington post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Remington’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A historic districtThe Remington Historic District takes in 131 historic buildings.On the map since 18945 editions of the USGS map, 1894 to 1978. Watch Remington change.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Remington.
★ What stands out · On the National Register

1 listing protects 131 historic buildings

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
131
each building in a district counts
first listed
2005
Remington Historic District
Remington Historic District
Districts

Architectural styles listings

Late Greek Revival1
Gothic Revival1
Queen Anne1
Colonial Revival1
Bungalow/Craftsman1
I-House1
Remington Historic DistrictLate Greek Revival

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

On the map

Remington on the map, 1894 to 1978

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

Remington on the 1894 USGS mapRemington on the 1927 USGS mapRemington on the 1930 USGS mapRemington on the 1966 USGS mapRemington on the 1978 USGS map1894Warrenton 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 Remington.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Remington’s post office has been open since 1890. Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Millview
1839–1860
Bowenville
1860–1876
Rappahannock Station
1876–1890
Remington
1890–today
18301930today

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

The story

How Remington came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Remington.

Read it all →

The Remington Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

The town developed as a transportation hub. It was a commercial port during the mid-nineteenth century on the Rappahannock Canal, but the canal failed financially, and operations were abandoned. Later, the town was a stop on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad called Rappahannock Station, but the O&A was eventually absorbed into the Norfolk Southern system, and the Remington spur fell into disuse.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Remington, 1839 to 1911

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1839Post officeThe Millview post office opens
  3. 1860Post officeThe Millview post office closes
  4. 1860Post officeThe Bowenville post office opens
  5. 1863In the archiveThe camp barber--taking a shave--Saturday--Rappahannock Station, Va
  6. 1876Post officeThe Bowenville post office closes
  7. 1876Post officeThe Rappahannock Station post office opens
  8. 1890Post officeThe Rappahannock Station post office closes
  9. 1894Born hereJud Wilson is born here
  10. 1894On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  11. 20th century
  12. 1911In the archive50thNewYorkEngineersinWinterCampRappahannockStation1864
By decade

Remington, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1860s to the 1910s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1860s7 items
The camp barber--taking a shave--Saturday--Rappahannock Station, Va1863The camp barber--taking a shave--Saturday--Rappahanno…Papers in camp--Campmen--Rappahannock Station1863Papers in camp--Campmen--Rappahannock StationBeef for the army--on the march1864Beef for the army--on the marchSoldier's hut in winter--Borrowing a chimney1864Soldier's hut in winter--Borrowing a chimneyNews from the front1864News from the frontReading the news--off duty1864Reading the news--off dutyThe commissary sergeant's quarters--weighing salt horse1864The commissary sergeant's quarters--weighing salt hor…
1910s1 item
50thNewYorkEngineersinWinterCampRappahannockStation1864191150thNewYorkEngineersinWinterCampRappahannockStation18…
1920s–1990snothing yet
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Add from your album
Today4 recent
20160520-RD-LSC-0529201620160520-RD-LSC-052920160520-RD-LSC-0522201620160520-RD-LSC-052220160520-RD-LSC-0514201620160520-RD-LSC-051420160520-RD-LSC-0513201620160520-RD-LSC-0513
Then & now

Stand where they stood

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.

The camp barber--taking a shave--Saturday--Rappahannock Station, Va
Retake this viewThe camp barber--taking a shave--Saturday--Rappahannock Station, Va, 1863

Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Remington’s page.

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People over time

Remington, census by census

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Grew from 198 people in 1900 to 626 in 2020, 3 times over.

13 censuses, 1900–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Remington’s Wikipedia page.

Help out

Finish Remington’s story

Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewThe camp barber--taking a shave--Saturd…: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10

Questions about Remington’s history

What year was Remington founded?

The Remington post office opened in 1890, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Remington?

One place: the Remington Historic District (listed 2005).

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 Wikimedia Commons (5), the Library of Congress (7), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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.