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History · Liberty Township

61% of Liberty Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the District School No. 3. Below: maps from 1962 on.

1on the National Register
61%homes built before 1940

What stands out about Liberty Township’s past

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

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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Liberty Township’s history is told.

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The story so far

Liberty Township, in brief

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

Liberty Township is one of fourteen townships in Carroll County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 403 (down from 440 at 2010) and it contained 181 housing units.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 440 to 403 (-8%).

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

Timeline

Liberty Township, 1853 to 1962

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1853Post officeThe Cornucopia post office opens
  3. 1864Post officeThe Cornucopia post office closes
  4. 1864Post officeThe Burrows post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1962On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

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On the map

Liberty Township on the map in 1962

The U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Liberty Township.

Liberty Township on the 1962 USGS map1962Burrows sheet · 1:24,000

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Liberty Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Liberty Township

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
1
each building in a district counts
first listed
1988
District School No. 3
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Italianate1

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Liberty Township

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

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Cornucopia
1853–1864
Burrows
1864–today
18501940today
Hamlets and corners on the map
BurrowsFlax
1cemetery inside Liberty Township
Woodville

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.

Questions about Liberty Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Liberty Township?

One place: the District School No. 3 (listed 1988).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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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 National Register of Historic Places (1), 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.