Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
Deer Creek
1832–1910
Rock Creek
1842–1845
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Deer Creek
Gone or out of use
Joyce Airportairport
2cemeteries and burying grounds inside Washington Township
HopewellRock Creek
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
The story so far
Washington Township, in brief
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Washington Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Washington Township is one of fourteen townships in Carroll County, Indiana. As of the 2020 census, its population was 551 (slightly up from 549 at 2010) and it contained 297 housing units.
Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 549 in 2010, 551 in 2020.
Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.
From the old history books
What they wrote about Washington Township, 1882–1904
Passages that mention Washington Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
History of Washington Township, Alameda County, California1904 · page 43Read the page →
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The Suburban Electric Light Co. was incorporated June 14, 1901, with a capital of $500,000. It distributes light and power throughout Alameda County, including as a matter of course all the towns and homes in Washington Township. This Company secures its power from the Standard Electric Company and from the Bay Counties Company.
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History of Carroll County, Indiana1882 · page 345Read the page →
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The winter of 1838 is memorable as being the date at which the first school was taught in Washington Township. The teacher was Miss Amanda Huston, a young lady of fine accomplishments, though only sixteen years of age when she took charge of the school. The schoolhouse was an old log cabin, which stood on the farm now occupied by Moses Standley, Jr. The frosts of winter had come before it was known th;it school was to be taught in the township, and when they came to " daub " the crevices be-
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History of Washington Township, Alameda County, California1904 · page 93Read the page →
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D. D. Henion, who is a comparatively late comer to Warm Springs, is, however, an old pioneer of Washington Township. He arrived in the valley in the fall of 1850, and located on the Chadbourne place between Centreville and Irvington. In 1853 he moved to Niles, where he lived first on the Clough place and later on the H. G. Ellsworth place until April 4, 1873, when he moved to Warm Springs.
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Scans and text from the Internet Archive. Books published in 1930 or earlier, which are in the public domain.
Timeline
Washington Township, 1832 to 1962
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Washington Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
1962Clymers 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 Washington Township.
Then & now
Stand where they stood
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as an old one and they appear here side by side.
Retake this viewBoys walking fence. Washington, Indiana, 1941
Find the spot, match the angle, and add your photo. It becomes the first then-and-now pair on Washington Township’s page.
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 (10), 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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