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Photo: Valis55 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Uniontown was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1977. Its Register listing is the Slack-Comstock-Marshall Farm. Below: maps from 1898 on.
The Uniontown post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Uniontown’s history is told.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Uniontown. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Uniontown.
From Wikipedia’s history of Uniontown.
The first permanent settlement at Uniontown was made in the 1840s by the Howell family. A post office has been in operation at Uniontown since 1881.
Slack-Comstock-Marshall Farm, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is located in the community.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Nobody well known was born in Uniontown itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
The Uniontown post office opened in 1881, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
One place: the Slack-Comstock-Marshall Farm (listed 1995).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 the National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.
