Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters · Photo: Nyttend · Public domain3 places in town are on the National Register, among them the Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters, a National Historic Landmark. Below: 1 old photo or paper, maps from 1953 on, and old-book passages.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Butler Township’s history is told.
Another post office, Santa Fe, opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. One is a National Historic Landmark, the highest tier.
★ Landmark
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
From Wikipedia’s history of Butler Township.
The Francis Godfroy Cemetery, Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters, and Westleigh Farms are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Butler Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
this county, in 1847; was a farmer, died September 18, 1868: was at one time township assessor of Butler Township. The mother's death occurred September 4, 1879. The person whose name appears at the commencement of this sketch was reared on the farm in Butler Township, and at the age of twentjsecured employment with a Mr. Whittenberger, grocer, as clerk, and afterwards engaged with Mr. N. C. Brower, boot and shoe dealer, where he remained until 1876, when he formed a co-part-
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settling in Butler Township, wheix' they remained until 1861 or 1862, when they moved to Whitley County. After a residence there of a few j-ears they returned to Miami County and located in Perry Township, where Mrs. Ramer died. After her death he Hved for a time again in Butler Township, after which he removed to Pulaski County where he died March, 1885. In early life Mr. Ramer received a limited education in consequence of the poor facilities of those days. March 29, 1850,
Text read by machine from the scan; it may contain errors.Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Butler Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Butler Township.
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Butler Township’s page.
Retake this view · +15Nobody well known was born in Butler Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
Three places: the Wallace Circus and American Circus Corporation Winter Quarters (listed 1987), the Godfroy, Francis, Cemetery (1984) and the Westleigh Farms (2003).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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 Library of Congress (1), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock), the USGS Geographic Names Information System and old county and town histories (Internet Archive). Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.
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