Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Pullman

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
–Not graded
History · Pullman

Pullman’s post office opened in 1881, and 26% of its homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1906 on and the census since 1910.

1881first post office
0on the National Register
26%homes built before 1940
Add an old photoShare a memory
Quick answers

How Pullman began

When was Pullman founded?

1881

The Pullman post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Parkers Mills (1871), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

First census: 230 in 19102020 census: 135145 years
Founding year: the first Pullman post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Pullman’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 Pullman are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.On the map since 19064 editions of the USGS map, 1906 to 1976. Watch Pullman change.
★ What stands out · Help out

Start Pullman’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Pullman’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
On the map

Pullman on the map, 1906 to 1976

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

Pullman on the 1906 USGS mapPullman on the 1924 USGS mapPullman on the 1964 USGS mapPullman on the 1976 USGS map1906Holbrook 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 Pullman.

The story so far

Pullman, in brief

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

Pullman is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 134 at the 2020 census. Pullman was platted in 1883, and named after George Pullman, a businessperson in the rail industry.

Its first post office opened in 1881. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 154 to 135 (-12%).

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

Timeline

Pullman, 1871 to 1906

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1871Post officeThe Parkers Mills post office opens
  3. 1877Post officeThe Parkers Mills post office closes
  4. 1881Post officeThe Pullman post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1906On 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.

Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your album
People over time

Pullman, census by census

0100200192019401960198020002020Peak: 249

Between 109 and 249 people in every census since 1910.

12 censuses, 1910–2020.

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

Places that used to be

Lost post offices and burying grounds

Pullman’s post office has been open since 1881. Another post office, Parkers Mills, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Parkers Mills
1871–1877
Pullman
1881–today
18701950today
1cemetery inside Pullman
Pullman Church

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

Questions about Pullman’s history

What year was Pullman founded?

The Pullman post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

Memory lane

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

Town Square →
Start a conversation
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, 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.