The story
Read it all →How Washington Township came to be
From Wikipedia’s history of Washington Township.
The Hall-Crull Octagonal House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
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History · Washington Township
56% of Washington Township’s homes were built before 1940
Its Register listing is the Hall-Crull Octagonal House. Below: old-book passages.
1on the National Register
56%homes built before 1940
What stands out about Washington Township’s past
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Washington Township’s history is told.
Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.From the old history books
What they wrote about Washington Township, 1888–1904
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 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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History of Rush County, Indiana, from the earliest time to the present1888 · page 800Read the page →
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Washington Township schools as early as 1830. He was a fine mathematician and was so absorbed with his arithmetic work that he paid no attention to an}' other branch. So thoroughhwas his time taken up in his favorite work that one of his pupils, a mischievous boy, took advantage of him so far as to read the same lesson every day in class, during the entire term. The teacher never discovered the continuous repetition. John Wood, from Massachusetts, taught at the Allen school house in about 1S36. He was a
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.
By decade
Washington Township, decade by decade
Today1 recent
2012On the National Register
1 historic place in Washington 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
1984
Hall-Crull Octagonal House
Buildings
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Famous people
See all →Famous people close to Washington Township
Nobody well known was born in Washington Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Places that used to be
Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds
Another post office, Raleigh, opened and closed inside today’s town.
Hamlets and corners on the map
FalmouthRaleigh
1cemetery inside Washington Township
Zion
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 Washington Township’s history
What is on the National Register in Washington Township?
One place: the Hall-Crull Octagonal House (listed 1984).
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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, 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.