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History · Mountain

Mountain’s post office opened in 1889, and 12% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listings are the Mountain School, the Chute Pond Dam and the Weber Lake Picnic Ground Shelter. Below: maps from 1973 on.

1889first post office
3on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Mountain began

When was Mountain founded?

1889

The Mountain post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 832137 years
Founding year: the first Mountain post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).The full story ↓

What stands out about Mountain’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 Mountain are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mountain’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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The story

How Mountain came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Mountain.

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This town was named Armstrong until August 1997, when the name was changed to Mountain. The town of Armstrong was set off from the town of How in 1897. Armstrong originally consisted of the present day towns of Doty, Lakewood, and Mountain.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Mountain, 1889 to 1973

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1889Post officeThe Mountain post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1905BuiltMountain School is built
  5. 1937BuiltChute Pond Dam is built
  6. 1937BuiltWeber Lake Picnic Ground Shelter is built
  7. 1973On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Mountain, decade by decade

Today8 recent
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On the map

Mountain on the map in 1973

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

Mountain on the 1973 USGS map1973Mountain 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 Mountain.

On the National Register

3 historic places in Mountain

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

places listed
3
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1996
Weber Lake Picnic Ground Shelter
Mountain School, built 1905Chute Pond Dam, built 1937Weber Lake Picnic Ground Shelter, built 1937
BuildingsStructures

Architectural styles listings

Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals1
Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements1
Mountain SchoolLate 19th and 20th Century Revivals · Built 1905
Chute Pond DamBuilt 1937
All 3 listings
Weber Lake Picnic Ground ShelterBuilding · listed 1996

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Mountain

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

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Dan HaggertyAmerican actor · b. 1942
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Pete BanaszakAmerican football player · b. 1944
G
George BurnsideAmerican football player · b. 1899
Russ BauersAmerican baseball player · b. 1914
D
Don ReeseProfessional golfer · b. 1953
E
Eli WaldronAmerican short story writer, journalist, poet, … · b. 1916
Places that used to be

Old corners and places now gone

Mountain’s post office has been open since 1889.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Bonita
Gone or out of use
Bowman Airportairport

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Riverview1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBrazeauIts storyC−DotyIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townBreedIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMenomineeIts storyD

Questions about Mountain’s history

What year was Mountain founded?

The Mountain post office opened in 1889, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Mountain?

Three places: the Mountain School (listed 2000), the Chute Pond Dam (2010) and the Weber Lake Picnic Ground Shelter (1996).

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 (8), Wikidata (2), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, 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.