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History · Unionville

Unionville’s post office opened in 1857

Most of Unionville was built recently: 8% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1982. Below: maps from 1943 on.

1857first post office
0on the National Register
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Quick answers

How Unionville began

When was Unionville founded?

1857

The Unionville post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Grassland (1885), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

169 years
Founding year: the first Unionville post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Unionville’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 Unionville are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Unionville’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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The story so far

Unionville, in brief

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

Unionville is an unincorporated community in Orange County, Virginia, United States. Unionville is 8 miles (13 km) east-northeast of Orange. Unionville has a post office with ZIP code 22567. Orange Springs was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Its first post office opened in 1857.

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

Timeline

Unionville, 1857 to 1968

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857Post officeThe Unionville post office opens
  3. 1885Post officeThe Grassland post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1943On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  6. 1968Post officeThe Grassland post office closes
By decade

Unionville, decade by decade

Today7 recent
USPO2023USPOStreet scene2023Street sceneLooking down the road into the center of town2023Looking down the road into the center of townCommercial intersection2023Commercial intersectionBethlehem United Methodist Church2023Bethlehem United Methodist ChurchA building which has seen better days2023A building which has seen better days2016-07-21 18 39 53 View north along U.S. Route 522 (Zachary Taylor Highway) just north of Virginia State Route 20 (Con…20162016-07-21 18 39 53 View north along U.S. Route 522 (…
On the map

Unionville on the map, 1943 to 1983

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

Unionville on the 1943 USGS mapUnionville on the 1968 USGS mapUnionville on the 1983 USGS map1943Unionville sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Unionville.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Unionville’s post office has been open since 1857. Another post office, Grassland, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Unionville
1857–today
Grassland
1885–1968
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Grassland
1cemetery inside Unionville
Unionville

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.

RhoadesvilleIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Unionville’s history

What year was Unionville founded?

The Unionville post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 (7), 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.