Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Photo: Nyttend · Public domainIts Register listing is the Chenoweth-Coulter Farm. Below: maps from 1950 on and the census since 1890.
Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Wayne Township’s history is told.
Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.
US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).
From Wikipedia’s history of Wayne Township.
Wayne Township was organized in 1844. Some of the early settlers being natives of Wayne County, Indiana caused the name to be selected.
The Chenoweth-Coulter Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Passages that mention Wayne Township, cut from the printed page as they were published.
A society of Disciples was organized in Wayne Township some time in the ’50s and a frame church was built near Banquo a little later. In its early days this church was fairly prosperous, but in recent years it has declined to some extent, though meetings are still held at intervals and the members hope to see the work revived.
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About 1850, probably a year or two earlier, a Baptist society was formed in the southern part of Wayne Township and within eighteen months had a strong membership. The schoolhouse was outgrown and in 1852 an unpretentious but comfortable frame house of worship was built in the northwest corner of Section 34, about a mile from the Grant First Church Building of the Baptist Church, Erected 1847 County line. Deaths and removals have weakened the congregation to some extent, but meetings are still held.
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Indiana, in the year 1835, and located in Union County, and afterward came to Huntington County, in 1865, where the father departed life about the year 1867 or 1868. The mother is still a resident of Wayne Township, and has reached the advanced age of seventy-seven years, her birth occurring April 18, 1811, and that of the father November 13, 1808. Our subject came to Huntington County, shortly after his marriage with Miss Cell a
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where he remained until 1840. He then returned to Indiana and from that year until his death in 1886, was an honored resident of Wayne Township. Conspicuous among the arrivals of 1839, was James Campbell, who made a home in the southern part of the township. He early gained considerable notoriety as a politician, and the decided stand which he took upon the question of the abolition of slavery was such as to antagonize many of his neighbors, who were
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.
Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.
Weddings 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 Wayne Township. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.
U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Wayne Township.
The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.
Between 470 and 1,047 people in every census since 1890.
14 censuses, 1890–2020.
U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Wayne Township’s Wikipedia page.
Nobody well known was born in Wayne Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.
Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.
One place: the Chenoweth-Coulter Farm (listed 2009).
What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.
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), Wikipedia, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via 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.
