The story
Read it all →How Love Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Love Township.
Love Township was created in 1902. It was named for a Vermilion county judge named I. A. Love.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
–Not graded
History · Love Township
14% of Love Township’s homes were built before 1940
Below: maps from 1947 on.
0on the National Register
14%homes built before 1940
Quick answers
Where Love Township’s name came from
How did Love Township get its name?
Love Township was named for a Vermilion county judge named I. A. Love.
Name: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.The full story ↓
What stands out about Love Township’s past
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
★ What stands out · Help out
Start Love Township’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Love Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Long
Humrick
18601940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BethelHumrick
Gone or out of use
Washington SchoolschoolYankee Branch ChurchchurchYankee Point Churchchurch
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Love Township
BethelWhitlockYankee Point
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
Timeline
Love Township, 1866 to 1947
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
By decade
No old photos in the archives yet
Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Be the first to add onePhotograph a print flat, in daylight, no flash.
Add from your albumOn the map
Love Township on the map, 1947 to 1965
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Love Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1947Ridge Farm sheet · 1:62,500U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Love Township.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Love Township
Nobody well known was born in Love Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Stories next door
History across the town line
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Questions about Love Township’s history
Memory lane
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
Start a conversation
Sources
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.