Its Register listings are the Anthony Scoville House, the Crowley Cheese Factory and the Green Mountain Cottage. Below: 3 old photos and papers, maps from 1893 on, and the census since 1800.
From Mount Holly’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers
How Mount Holly began
When was Mount Holly founded?
1808
The Mount Holly post office opened in 1808, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Mechanicsville (1838) and Healdville (1853), opened inside today’s town and later closed.
First census: 668 in 18002020 census: 1,385218 years
How historic is Mount Holly?
B+
More historic than 75% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.
Founding year: the first Mount Holly post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade
What drives Mount Holly’s History grade
On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Mount Holly is more historic than 75% of U.S. towns. All 3 inputs are above most U.S. towns; its age ranks highest and its National Register listings lowest.
B+
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Mount Holly’s overall grade.
Vermont towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Vermont town has 147 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Mount Holly’s 28.3 sits near the middle of its state (38% of Vermont towns have fewer) while its 4 historic buildings outnumber those of 68% of U.S. towns.
How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from B+ to A−. The pre-1940 share is a Census survey estimate (±5.8 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 Mount Holly’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Mount Holly, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mount Holly yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Mount Holly is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. It includes the hamlets of Belmont, Healdville, Hortonville, and Tarbellville. The population was 1,385 at the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1808. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 1,237 to 1,385 (+12%).
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Mount Holly in 1886
Passages that mention Mount Holly, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1886 · page 673Read the page →
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The present town of Mount Holly was incorporated at the October session of the Legislature of 1792, held in Rutland. The town as incorporated comprised Jackson's Gore with all that portion of the town of Ludlow lying west of the highest ridge of what is known as " Ludlow Mountain," and on the west a tract one mile in width, or two tiers of lots, from the east side of the town of Wallingford.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
History of Rutland County, Vermont, with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its prominent men and pioneers1886 · page 832Read the page →
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off to help form the town of Mount Holly; and in 1793, in compensation, a portion of tlie town of Tinniouth was annexed to Wallingford, restoring it to about the original extent.
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.
Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Mount Holly, 1808 to 1978
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
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.
The Mount Holly post office opened in 1808, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
How does Mount Holly rank for history?
Mount Holly is more historic than 75% of U.S. towns. 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 Mount Holly?
Three places: the Anthony Scoville House (listed 2007), the Crowley Cheese Factory (1979) and the Green Mountain Cottage (2021).
How old are the homes in Mount Holly?
18% of Mount Holly’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±5.8 points), against a typical 22% for a Vermont town; the median home was built in 1984.
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 (4), the Library of Congress (3), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), 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), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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