Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Its Register listing is the McKenzie, Erza, Round Barn. Below: old-book passages.
Hazleton dates its founding to 1853 (Wikidata). Its post office opened in 1854.
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 Hazleton’s history is told.
Hazleton’s post office has been open since 1886. Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikipedia’s history of Hazleton.
The original town was established in 1853 when E. W. Tenney opened a store. A post office opened soon after and was named "Hazelton", because the community was in a hazelnut grove. When the railway came, it missed the town by a mile, so the town was moved to the railway. The current site of "Hazleton" was established in 1873, and incorporated in 1883.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Hazleton, cut from the printed page as they were published.
previously worked at it with his father, making about nineteen years in all. Had in the meantime acquired the trade of repairing watches, clocks and jewelry. Has been a resident of Hazleton township for the past twentyfour years; moving to New Hazleton in 1876, when the railroad came through. This is the fourth winter he has run a jewelry repairing shop in Hazleton. Mr. Fourtner was married in 1871, to Miss Louisa A. Gutcher, of this
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ington township, where the two roads cross, nestled among the oaks of the Wapsie, just below us; Winthrop, in Byron, toward the east, and Jesup in Perry, toward the west; Hazleton station, in the township of that name, on the north, and Rowley in Homer, on the south. Afar to the northwest in the township of Fairbank, situated on the
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born 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 Hazleton itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
In 1853, according to Wikidata. Hazleton’s post office opened in 1854.
One place: the McKenzie, Erza, Round Barn (listed 1986).
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 Wikimedia Commons (2), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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