Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Maryhill

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
MaryhillMaryhill · Photo: Cacophony · CC BY 3.0
–Not graded
History · Maryhill

Maryhill’s post office opened in 1909, and 2 of its places are on the National Register

Its Register listings are the First Day Advent Christian Church and the Stonehenge Memorial. Below: 4 old photos and papers, maps from 1977 on, and the census since 2000.

1909first post office
2on the National Register
0.0%homes built before 1940
4old photos & papers
Add an old photoShare a memory
From Maryhill’s archive · credits on each photo
Quick answers

How Maryhill began

When was Maryhill founded?

1909

The Maryhill post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 98 in 20002020 census: 55117 years
Founding year: the first Maryhill post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Maryhill’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 4 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Maryhill’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maryhill’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
2 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Retake an old viewColumbus Landing on the Columbia River …: stand where they stood+15Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
The story

How Maryhill came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Maryhill.

Read it all →

Maryhill is named after the wife and daughter of regional icon Sam Hill, who purchased land and envisioned a community there shortly after the turn of the 20th century. Earlier the area was known as "Columbia" or "Columbus". In 1909, the Klickitat County commissioners had accepted the town's name as "Maryland" - proposed by Sam Hill and Associates who had laid out the town. However, this name was rejected by postal authorities as they would not accept a name corresponding to a state, so it was renamed "Maryhill".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Maryhill, 1909 to 1977

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1909Post officeThe Maryhill post office opens
  3. 1913In the archiveColumbus Landing on the Columbia River at Maryhill, Washington, ca. 1913
  4. 1913Post officeThe Maryhill post office closes
  5. 1922Post officeThe Maryhill post office opens
  6. 1926In the archiveMaryhill Museum, south of Goldendale, Maryhill, Washington, n.d
  7. 1963Post officeThe Maryhill post office closes
  8. 1977On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Maryhill, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1910s to the 1920s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1910s–1920s4 items
Columbus Landing on the Columbia River at Maryhill, Washington, ca. 1913c. 1913Columbus Landing on the Columbia River at Maryhill, W…Maryhill store and post office with circular drinking trough and fountain, Columbia River, Washington, ca. 1913c. 1913Maryhill store and post office with circular drinking…View of Maryhill, Washington1914View of Maryhill, WashingtonMaryhill Museum, south of Goldendale, Maryhill, Washington, n.dc. 1926Maryhill Museum, south of Goldendale, Maryhill, Washi…
1930s–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
Today7 recent
BNSF 4539 west2010BNSF 4539 westWindmills near2008Windmills nearMaryhill WA2008Maryhill WAMaryhill Loops Road2007Maryhill Loops RoadWAMap-doton-Maryhill b2004WAMap-doton-Maryhill bSouthern Pacific 4449, Deadheading Eastward at2004Southern Pacific 4449, Deadheading Eastward atMaryhill area2003Maryhill area
On the map

Maryhill on the map, 1977 to 1994

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

Maryhill on the 1977 USGS mapMaryhill on the 1980 USGS mapMaryhill on the 1994 USGS map1977Biggs Junction 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 Maryhill.

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.

Columbus Landing on the Columbia River at Maryhill, Washington, ca. 1913
Retake this viewColumbus Landing on the Columbia River at Maryhill, Washington, ca. 1913, c. 1913

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

Retake this view · +15
On the National Register

2 historic places in Maryhill

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
1991
First Day Advent Christian Church
First Day Advent Christian ChurchStonehenge Memorial
BuildingsStructures

Architectural styles listings

Gothic Revival1
First Day Advent Christian ChurchGothic Revival
Stonehenge MemorialStructure

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

People over time

Maryhill, census by census

010020002020Peak: 98

Between 55 and 98 people in every census since 2000.

3 censuses, 2000–2020.

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Maryhill

Nobody well known was born in Maryhill itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

See all →
Vic WildAmerican-born Russian snowboarder · b. 1986
Greg WaldenAmerican politician · b. 1957
Cecil D. AndrusAmerican politician · b. 1931
Doc SeverinsenAmerican jazz trumpeter · b. 1927
V
Virginia AdmiralAmerican painter and poet · b. 1915
Clifton N. McArthurAmerican politician · b. 1879
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Maryhill had its own post office from 1909 to 1913. Another post office, Maryhill, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Maryhill
1909–1913
Maryhill
1922–1963
19001960today
Gone or out of use
Maryhill Post Officepost office

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

Questions about Maryhill’s history

What year was Maryhill founded?

The Maryhill post office opened in 1909, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Maryhill?

Two places: the First Day Advent Christian Church (listed 1991) and the Stonehenge Memorial (2021).

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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 (10), the Library of Congress (1), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (2), Wikipedia, 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.