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History · Scott Township

12% of Scott Township’s homes were built before 1940

Its Register listing is the Ashby. Below: maps from 1958 on.

1on the National Register
12%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Scott 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 Scott Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages3 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Scott Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Scott Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
00s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s
0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

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

Parkersburg
1835–1903
Faithsville
1837–1837
Lapland
1885–1899
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
LaplandParkersburg
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Scott Township
JamesOld PottingerWasson

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

The story

How Scott Township came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Scott Township.

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Ashby was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Scott Township, 1835 to 1958

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1835Post officeThe Parkersburg post office opens
  3. 1837Post officeThe Faithsville post office opens
  4. 1837Post officeThe Faithsville post office closes
  5. 1885Post officeThe Lapland post office opens
  6. 1899Post officeThe Lapland post office closes
  7. 20th century
  8. 1903Post officeThe Parkersburg post office closes
  9. 1958On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Scott Township, decade by decade

Today1 recent
Ashby near Ladoga from a distance2012Ashby near Ladoga from a distance
On the map

Scott Township on the map, 1958 to 1986

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Scott Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Scott Township on the 1958 USGS mapScott Township on the 1986 USGS map1958Ladoga 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 Scott Township.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Scott 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
1980
Ashby
Ashby
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Italianate1
AshbyItalianate

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

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

Union Township13 historic placesABrown Township2 historic placesAFranklin Township3 historic placesA+Clark Township1 historic placeARussell Township1 historic placenot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Scott Township’s history

What is on the National Register in Scott Township?

One place: the Ashby (listed 1980).

Memory lane

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

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Sources

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 Wikimedia Commons (1), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikipedia, 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.