Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Below: 2 old photos and papers, maps from 1950 on, and the census since 1890.
The English post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name.
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 English’s history is told.
From Wikipedia’s history of English.
English was called Hartford when it was laid out in 1839. When the town incorporated in 1884 it was renamed English for William Hayden English, an Indiana politician of the day. On December 28, 1893, the county seat of Crawford County was relocated from Leavenworth to English.
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Passages that mention English, cut from the printed page as they were published.
![C. 237. He is extolled by Lcland for his distinguished excellence both in the classics and philosophy. He published much Latin poetry*. Strj'pe's Euz. p. 242. Carter was also of St. John's in Cambridge.] Another, with one in English, to John Sadler's English version of Vegetius's Tactics, done at t…](https://images.townratings.com/story/4899/bk-42cece489e09c6be-l.jpg)
C. 237. He is extolled by Lcland for his distinguished excellence both in the classics and philosophy. He published much Latin poetry*. Strj'pe's Euz. p. 242. Carter was also of St. John's in Cambridge.] Another, with one in English, to John Sadler's English version of Vegetius's Tactics, done at the request of sir Ed. Umdenell and addressed to the carl of Bedford, Lond. 1572. 410. He has a Latin epitaph, or eleg>', on the death of doctor Cuthbert Scot, designed bishop of Chester, but deposed by queen Eliabeth for popery, who died a ■fugitive at Louvaine, Lond. 1565, He probably wrote this piece abroad. There is licenced to T. Marsh, in 1565, 'An Epigramc of the death of Cuthbert Skottc by Roger Sherlock,
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December 8, 1876, Edward Rigg’s stable in the rear of the railroad station was discovered to be on fire, and the flames communicated with the adjoining stable of Emerson English. The wind was blowing a gale and carried large blazing embers long distances. The roof of the Coffee House, (now the Alcazar Hotel) and the wagon sheds in the adjacent yard were ignited. The residence of James H.
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WARTON'S history of ENGLISH POETRY. 929 Several tales of Boccace's Decameron were now translated into English rhymes. The celebrated story of the friendship of Titus AND Gesippus was rendered by Edward Lewicke, a name not Icnown in the catalogue of English poets, in 1562. The title is forgotten with the translator. ' The most wonderful and pleasaunt his- •' tor\' of Titus and Gisippus, whereby is fully declared the figure of 'perfect frendshyp drawen into English metre by Edwarde Lewicke.
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When the English gained supremacy along the Delaware in 1664 the island became occupied as a sort of frontier trading and military station. A letter addressed to Captain William Toms, dated October 6, 1675, by Governor Lovelace, ‘‘recommends a good work about Matinicunk house on Burlington Island which, strengthened with a considerable guard, would make an admirable frontier.”
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 English. 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 English.
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 English’s page.
Retake this view · +15Between 423 and 839 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on English’s Wikipedia page.
Writers, athletes, leaders and more, ranked by how widely they’re known.
English’s post office has been open since 1856.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The English post office opened in 1856, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).
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 Wikimedia Commons (5), the Library of Congress (2), Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), 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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