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History · Glenbeulah

Glenbeulah’s post office opened in 1860, and 37% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Glenbeulah Mill/Grist Mill. Below: maps from 1954 on and the census since 1880.

1860first post office
1on the National Register
37%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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How Glenbeulah began

When was Glenbeulah founded?

1860

The Glenbeulah post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 375 in 18802020 census: 451166 years
Founding year: the first Glenbeulah post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Glenbeulah’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 Glenbeulah are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Glenbeulah’s homes were built before 1962.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Glenbeulah’s history is told.

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The story

How Glenbeulah came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Glenbeulah.

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A post office called Glenbeulah has been in operation since 1860. Glenbeulah was named from its setting in a glen, and in honor of Beulah, the mother of a railroad contractor.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Glenbeulah, 1857 to 1954

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1857BuiltGlenbeulah Mill/Grist Mill is built
  3. 1860Post officeThe Glenbeulah post office opens
  4. 20th century
  5. 1905Born hereWilliam Van Pelt is born here
  6. 1954On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Glenbeulah, decade by decade

Today6 recent
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On the map

Glenbeulah on the map, 1954 to 1992

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

Glenbeulah on the 1954 USGS mapGlenbeulah on the 1974 USGS mapGlenbeulah on the 1992 USGS map1954Kiel sheet · 1:62,500

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

On the National Register

1 historic place in Glenbeulah

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1984
Glenbeulah Mill/Grist Mill
Glenbeulah Mill/Grist Mill, built 1857
Buildings
Glenbeulah Mill/Grist MillBuilt 1857

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

People over time

Glenbeulah, census by census

010020030040050018801900192019401960198020002020Peak: 496

Between 284 and 496 people in every census since 1880.

12 censuses, 1880–2020.

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Plymouth1 historic placeB−Greenbush3 historic placesA

Questions about Glenbeulah’s history

What year was Glenbeulah founded?

The Glenbeulah post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Glenbeulah?

One place: the Glenbeulah Mill/Grist Mill (listed 1984).

Memory lane

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

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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 (6), Wikidata (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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) 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.