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History · Lafayette Township

22% of Lafayette Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the William Moats Farm.

1on the National Register
22%homes built before 1940
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On the National Register

1 historic place in Lafayette Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
3
each building in a district counts
first listed
1987
William Moats Farm
William Moats Farm
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

I-House1
William Moats FarmI-House

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Gone or out of use
Antioch SchoolschoolHardesty Landing StripairportPrairie View SchoolschoolReinke AirportairportYorty Schoolschool
1cemetery inside Lafayette Township
Chapel Hill

Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Taylor TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPine Rock TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townAshton TownshipIts storyBFlagg Township4 historic placesB

Questions about Lafayette Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Lafayette Township?

One place: the William Moats Farm (listed 1987).

Memory lane

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

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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 the National Register of Historic Places (1) 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.