Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: maps from 1915 on and old-book passages.
The Valley post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Valley’s history is told.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Valley yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Its first post office opened in 1889. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 146 to 149 (+2%).
Passages that mention Valley, cut from the printed page as they were published.
elry business nine years, and two years making hoesin Millbury, Massachusetts. In 1856, came to Afton and built the first house, which is still a part of his present residence in Valley Creek. Soon after, started a blacksmith shop, and two years later added a water-power, and began the manufacture of farming tools. In 1873, gave up Ms business and started a store at Valley Creek,
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or proposals to build said court house. At a meeting of the board held October 27th, 1856, it was voted to change the boundary line of Kinnickinnic and Pleasant Valley towns, by taking from the west end of Pleasant Valley two miles by six and adding it to the town of Kinnickinnic.
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a practice farm of seven hundred acres at Davis and a spacious experimental farm on the Kearny Rancho in Fresno. It has also experiment stations at Riverside and Imperial Valley, a pathological laboratory at Whittier, and forestry stations in the north and in the south. It also runs a correspondence school on agriculture and holds farmers' institutes over all the State: in 1913 were held one-hun-
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Washington in 1907. There he became bookkeeper for the Wenatchee Valley Fruit Growers' Association and was advanced to the position of assistant general manager. On the 1st of June, 1914, he came to Yakima as a representative of the Northwestern Fruit Exchange of Seattle and in January, 1916, he organized the Growers' Service Company, which was incorporated on the 13th of that month, with W. N. Irish as the president, Alfred H. Henry as vice-president and Cleo M. Furry as secretary, treasurer and general manager. Mr. Henry sold his interest in the business in 1917 and Mr. Furry then became vice-president and general manager, while Harry Irish is
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.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Valley. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Valley.
Fire insurance maps drew every building, what it was made of and what it was used for, so insurers could price the risk of fire. Pick a sheet.
1915Sheet 1 of 1Sanborn Map Company, via the Library of Congress. Editions published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Nobody well known was born in Valley itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Valley post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System, Sanborn fire insurance maps (Library of Congress) 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.
