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History · Decker Township

21% of Decker Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1949 on.

0on the National Register
21%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Decker Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

Lost villages4 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Decker Township, and 4 old place names are still on the map.A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Decker Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
★ What stands out · Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Four other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Franconia
1853–1876
Wynoose
1881–1907
Gallagher
1888–1904
Schnell
1898–1902
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
FransoniaGallagherSchnellWynoose
Gone or out of use
Calhoun Oil FieldoilfieldFransonia SchoolschoolGallagher SchoolschoolHedrick SchoolschoolMcCauley SchoolschoolOlive Branch ChurchchurchPleasant View ChurchchurchSchnell East Oil FieldoilfieldTaylor SchoolschoolVan Matre Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Decker Township
CarsonDeckerGallagherGreen HillOlive Branch

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

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

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The story

How Decker Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Decker Township.

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Decker Township bears the name of Thomas J. Decker, a local pioneer. Before May 2, 1859, the township was known as Jackson Township.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Decker Township, 1853 to 1949

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1853Post officeThe Franconia post office opens
  3. 1876Post officeThe Franconia post office closes
  4. 1881Post officeThe Wynoose post office opens
  5. 1888Post officeThe Gallagher post office opens
  6. 20th century
  7. 1904Post officeThe Gallagher post office closes
  8. 1907Post officeThe Wynoose post office closes
  9. 1949On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
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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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On the map

Decker Township on the map, 1949 to 1971

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

Decker Township on the 1949 USGS mapDecker Township on the 1971 USGS map1949Olney 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 Decker Township.

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Clay City TownshipIts storyC+Noble TownshipIts storyC+Mount Erie TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townMadison TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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.