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The West View Schoolhouse and Weyers Cave School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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History · Weyers Cave
Weyers Cave’s post office opened in 1874, and 2 of its places are on the National Register
More historic than 31% of U.S. towns · #133 of 253 in Virginia. What drives it
Most of Weyers Cave was built recently: 3% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2000. Its Register listings are the West View Schoolhouse and the Weyers Cave School. Below: maps from 1941 on.
1874first post office
2on the National Register
3%homes built before 1940
1famous people
Quick answers
How Weyers Cave began
When was Weyers Cave founded?
1874
The Weyers Cave post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name.
2020 census: 2,700152 years
How historic is Weyers Cave?
C
What drives the grade ↓More historic than 31% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Weyers Cave post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓
History grade
What drives Weyers Cave’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Weyers Cave is more historic than 31% of U.S. towns, #133 of 253 in Virginia. Its National Register listings hold the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.
C
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Weyers Cave’s overall grade.
Founding era1874, from the first post office: founded 1850–1899, an older era than 37% of U.S. townsC+Homes built before 19402.7% of homes (±3.2) · typical VA town 1.9% · U.S. 8.4%C−National Register2 listings, 7.3 per 10,000 residents · typical VA town 3.6 · U.S. 2.4B
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 31%
NewerOlder
Virginia towns of 2,500+ (253)Ahead of 48%
Virginia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Virginia town has 3.6 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Weyers Cave’s 7.3 sits near the middle of its state (51% of Virginia towns have fewer) while its 2 listings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to C+. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±3.2 points). The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.
Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →
What stands out about Weyers Cave’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
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Start Weyers Cave’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Weyers Cave’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.Timeline
Weyers Cave, 1874 to 1997
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
- 19th century
- 1874Post officeThe Weyers Cave post office opens
- 20th century
- 1941
On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey - 1997
Born hereQuin Houff is born here
By decade
Weyers Cave, decade by decade
Today6 recent
2016
2016
2016
2016
2011
2011On the map
Weyers Cave on the map, 1941 to 2002
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Weyers Cave. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1941Harrisonburg sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Weyers Cave.
On the National Register
2 historic places in Weyers Cave
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1985
West View Schoolhouse
Buildings
Architectural styles listings
Vernacular1
Colonial Revival1
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Places that used to be
Places now gone and burying grounds
Weyers Cave’s post office has been open since 1874.
Gone or out of use
Naked Creek Churchchurch
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Weyers Cave
CashClickNaked Creek
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Questions about Weyers Cave’s history
What year was Weyers Cave founded?
The Weyers Cave post office opened in 1874, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Weyers Cave rank for history?
Weyers Cave is more historic than 31% of U.S. towns, #133 of 253 in Virginia. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.
What is on the National Register in Weyers Cave?
Two places: the West View Schoolhouse (listed 1985) and the Weyers Cave School (1985).
How old are the homes in Weyers Cave?
3% of Weyers Cave’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±3.2 points), against a typical 1.9% for a Virginia town; the median home was built in 2000.
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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).
From Wikimedia Commons (6), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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.