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History · Milton Township

40% of Milton Township’s homes were built before 1940

0on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Milton 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 Milton Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Milton Township, and 1 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Milton Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Places that used to be

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

Three other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Home
1830–1896
Buena Vista
1847–1858
Manville
1858–1907
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Manville
Gone or out of use
Home Post Officepost office
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Milton Township
JoyceMilton

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

The story

How Milton Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Milton Township.

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The township was created by the Jefferson County Court of Common Pleas on May 12, 1818, from Madison Township and Pittsburgh Township. At the time, it also included the southern tier of modern Shelby Township running from an east–west line between sections 33 and 33 Twp. 4N Range 11E to the Switzerland county border. It is an overwhelmingly rural area and the cultivation of Burley tobacco has been a major cash crop since the late 1800s.

Milton Township has one incorporated town, Brooksburg, and the unincorporated Manville area. Four churches exist: the Manville Christian, Brooksburg Baptist, Brooksburg Methodist and Macedonia Baptist. The Pleasant Ridge Methodist Church, founded in 1839, disbanded in 2002.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Milton Township, 1830 to 1907

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1830Post officeThe Home post office opens
  3. 1847Post officeThe Buena Vista post office opens
  4. 1858Post officeThe Buena Vista post office closes
  5. 1858Post officeThe Manville post office opens
  6. 1896Post officeThe Home post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1907Post officeThe Manville post office closes
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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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Famous people

Famous people close to Milton Township

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

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Ken MaynardAmerican actor and stunt performer · b. 1895
Kermit MaynardActor, stunt performer · b. 1897
Lydia Moss BradleyAmerican philanthropist; founded Bradley Univer… · b. 1816
Edward EgglestonNovelist, historian, clergyman · b. 1837
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Jack TingleAmerican basketball player · b. 1924
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Lucien ShawChief Justice of California · b. 1845
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Madison Township7 historic placesA+Shelby TownshipIts storyC−Craig Township3 historic placesnot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townPleasant TownshipIts storyB−LambIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 Wikipedia, 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.