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History · Lanesville Township

Lanesville Township’s post office opened in 1860, and 18% of its homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Bolivia Road Bridge.

1860first post office
1on the National Register
18%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Lanesville Township began

When was Lanesville Township founded?

1860

The Lanesville Township post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name. Wikidata gives 1875. Three smaller post offices, Lanesville (1860), Wheatfield (1862) and Saunders (1891), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 212166 years
Founding year: the first Lanesville Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Wikidata: 1875.
On the National Register

1 historic place in Lanesville Township

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

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
2004
Bolivia Road Bridge
Bolivia Road Bridge, built 1901
Structures

Architectural styles listings

Parker Through Truss Bridge1
Pony Truss1
Bolivia Road BridgeParker Through Truss Bridge · Built 1901

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

Places that used to be

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

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

Lanesville
1860–1959
Wheatfield
1862–1885
Saunders
1891–1893
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
LanesvilleSaunders
Gone or out of use
Ray Schoollocale
1cemetery inside Lanesville Township
Bethel

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). 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.

Mount Auburn TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townCooper Township2 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townIlliopolis TownshipIts storyC+Mechanicsburg TownshipIts storyBMount Pulaski Township3 historic placesAElkhart TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Lanesville Township’s history

What year was Lanesville Township founded?

The Lanesville Township post office opened in 1860, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records). Wikidata gives 1875.

What is on the National Register in Lanesville Township?

One place: the Bolivia Road Bridge (listed 2004).

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), 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.