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History · St. Marie

23% of St. Marie’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1918 on.

0on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about St. Marie’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 St. Marie are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19183 editions of the USGS map, 1918 to 1984. Watch St. Marie change.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how St. Marie’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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On the map

St. Marie on the map, 1918 to 1984

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

St. Marie on the 1918 USGS mapSt. Marie on the 1963 USGS mapSt. Marie on the 1984 USGS map1918Neshkoro 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 St. Marie.

The story

How St. Marie came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of St. Marie.

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First moving to neighboring Princeton in 1845, a man named John Shaw filed a plat for the town in 1851. The town took its name from a local Marian church.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

St. Marie, 1849 to 1918

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1849Post officeThe State Centre post office opens
  3. 1850Post officeThe State Centre post office closes
  4. 20th century
  5. 1918On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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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Famous people

Famous people close to St. Marie

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

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Carrie Chapman CattAmerican social reformer, suffragist · b. 1859
Elda Emma AndersonAmerican physicist · b. 1899
Harry Gordon SelfridgeAmerican born English businessman · b. 1858
William NighAmerican film director, writer and actor · b. 1881
Winifred Edgerton MerrillAmerican mathematician · b. 1862
Luther ReedAmerican film director and screenwrigter · b. 1888
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, places now gone and burying grounds

Another post office, State Centre, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Gone or out of use
School Number 3schoolSchool Number 5schoolSchool Number 6schoolSchool Number 7schoolSchool Number 8schoolSchool Number 9schoolWhite River Lockdam
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside St. Marie
Black CreekMount TomState Center

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.

SenecaIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPrincetonIts storyC+NeshkoroIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPrinceton1 historic placeA+Berlin1 historic placeB−BrooklynIts storyC

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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 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.