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History · Henrietta

Henrietta’s post office opened in 1857, and 35% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1983 on.

1857first post office
0on the National Register
35%homes built before 1940
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How Henrietta began

When was Henrietta founded?

1857

The Henrietta post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Woodstock (1855) and Hub City (1883), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 435169 years
Founding year: the first Henrietta post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Henrietta’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 Henrietta are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Henrietta, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Henrietta’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Henrietta had its own post office from 1857 to 1904. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Woodstock
1855–1919
Henrietta
1857–1904
Hub City
1883–1923
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Hub CityWoodstock
Gone or out of use
Henrietta SchoolschoolSchool Number 4schoolSchool Number 5school
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Henrietta
Saint Patricks Melancthon CreekSoules Creek

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

The story so far

Henrietta, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Henrietta yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Henrietta is a town in Richland County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 435 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated communities of Hub City and Woodstock, the birthplace of former Iowa Attorney General Howard Webster Byers, are located in the town. The ghost town of Henrietta was also located in the town.

Its first post office opened in 1857. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 493 to 435 (-12%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Henrietta, 1855 to 1983

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1855Post officeThe Woodstock post office opens
  3. 1857Post officeThe Henrietta post office opens
  4. 1883Post officeThe Hub City post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1904Post officeThe Henrietta post office closes
  7. 1919Post officeThe Woodstock post office closes
  8. 1923Post officeThe Hub City post office closes
  9. 1983On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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On the map

Henrietta on the map in 1983

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Henrietta.

Henrietta on the 1983 USGS map1983Yuba 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 Henrietta.

Famous people

Famous people close to Henrietta

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

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Frank Lloyd WrightAmerican architect · b. 1867
Raymond Leo BurkeAmerican Catholic cardinal · b. 1948
Marc MitscherUnited States admiral · b. 1887
Lynda BarryAmerican cartoonist · b. 1956
Vernon Wallace ThomsonAmerican politician · b. 1905
Otis B. ThayerActor, Director · b. 1862
Stories next door

History across the town line

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

BloomIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townRockbridge1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townYubaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townWestfordIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGreenwoodIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townUnionIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Henrietta’s history

What year was Henrietta founded?

The Henrietta post office opened in 1857, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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 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.