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History · Truro Township

Truro Township’s post office opened in 1850, and 31% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Truro Township began

When was Truro Township founded?

1850

The Truro Township post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Truro (1850), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 836176 years
Founding year: the first Truro Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Truro 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 Truro Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Truro Township’s homes were built before 1960.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Truro Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Truro Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Truro Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Truro is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Illinois. Truro is a populated place located within the Township of Truro, a minor civil division (MCD) of Knox County. The elevation of Truro is 682 feet. Knox County is in the Central Time Zone (UTC -6 hours). The population in Truro is 738. There are 21 people per square mile aka population density. The median age in Truro is 37.5, the US median age is 37.4. The number of people per household in Truro is 2.6, the US average of people per household is 2.6.

Its first post office opened in 1850. Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 840 in 2010, 836 in 2020.

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

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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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Famous people

Famous people close to Truro Township

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

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Justin HartleyAmerican actor · b. 1977
Lorado TaftAmerican sculptor and writer · b. 1860
Justina FordAmerican physician · b. 1871
Ernest de Koven LeffingwellAmerican geologist and explorer · b. 1875
George A. WilliamsAmerican politician, Nebraska · b. 1864
Matt WilsonAmerican jazz drummer · b. 1964
Places that used to be

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

Another post office, Truro, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Truro
Gone or out of use
Baird SchoolschoolCentennial SchoolschoolDixie SchoolschoolEugene SchoolschoolLapham SchoolschoolTrenton BridgebridgeWest Truro Schoolschool
6cemeteries and burying grounds inside Truro Township
Caldwell FamilyCorbinFinkParkerWest TruroWilliams Family

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.

Persifer TownshipIts storyC+Millbrook TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townElba TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townVictoria TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Truro Township’s history

What year was Truro Township founded?

The Truro Township post office opened in 1850, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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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 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.