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History · Maryland Township

42% of Maryland Township’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1942 on.

0on the National Register
42%homes built before 1940
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Photo: Ben Jacobson (Kranar Drogin) · CC BY 2.5

What stands out about Maryland Township’s past

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

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Maryland Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Maryland Township’s homes were built before 1950.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Maryland Township’s history is told.

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The story

How Maryland Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Maryland Township.

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"Whereas, It appears from a communication from the Auditor of State to the Clerk of the County Court that, by a decision in his office, the names of the Towns [sic Townships] of Harrison, Eagle and Brooklyn must be changed, in pursuance of which the name of the Town is changed to the name of Maryland; the name of the Town of Brooklyn is changed to Rockvale, and the name of the Town of Eagle is changed to the name of Pine Rock." [Nov. 12, 1850]

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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.

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On the map

Maryland Township on the map, 1942 to 1983

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

Maryland Township on the 1942 USGS mapMaryland Township on the 1983 USGS map1942Forreston 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 Maryland Township.

Famous people

Famous people close to Maryland Township

Nobody well known was born in Maryland Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Calista FlockhartAmerican actress · b. 1964
Carl BarksAmerican cartoonist · b. 1901
Louella ParsonsAmerican gossip columnist · b. 1881
George Kingsley ZipfAmerican statistician · b. 1902
Alfred A. CohnAmerican screenwriter · b. 1880
Carl CainAmerican basketball player · b. 1934
Places that used to be

Places now gone and burying grounds

Gone or out of use
Adeline QuarrymineBorneman QuarrymineCyclone Heights SchoolschoolGreen Prairie SchoolschoolMyers QuarryminePleasant Hill SchoolschoolRummel RLA AirportairportSunnyside SchoolschoolWagner SchoolschoolWhite Eagle Schoolschool
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Maryland Township
CoffmanNorth Grove Zion Reformed

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.

Leaf River TownshipIts storyA−Mount Morris Township2 historic placesAForreston TownshipIts storyB−Ridott TownshipIts storyB−ForrestonIts storyB−

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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 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.