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History · Monaville
Monaville’s history is mostly unwritten
The public archives hold no old photos of Monaville yet. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
What stands out about Monaville’s past Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out Start Monaville’s collection The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Monaville’s history is told.
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album. The story How Monaville came to be From Wikipedia’s history of Monaville.
Read it all → Monaville formerly held the US postal ZIP code 25636 until the post office was closed. Monaville was formerly known as "Vanceville" and was listed as such on a US Postal Service map of the late 1890s. The region was likely named for the Vance family who owned much of the land prior to the coal mining era.
The name is believed to have been changed to "Monaville" in honor of Mona Wilkinson, the daughter of a prominent coal mining official. The Logan Mining Company operated a coal mine here, and the name "Mona Mine" appears on a 1918 photo of the coal tipple.
Text from Wikipedia , licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 .
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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